In cycling, there is either an atrocious energy sapping head-wind, or you are having a good day. Friday was a good day. At least it started well, going at an average speed of 30kph for the first hour. But then, the rain came and we got cold and wet. The issue with testing out our kit for America by bicycling around England is that the kit you need is different. If I was touring around Britain, I would invest in some leggings and some full length gloves, as well as a raincoat that is rain proof.
As it is though, our fingers freeze, our legs are tanned deep brown through over exposure, and we got extremely lost because the maps were all wet despite the supposed safety of my raincoat. Luckily in America, it should be warmer - the tan will be from the sun not the cold, and the maps (by the Adventure Cycling association) which we will be using are waterproof.
We stopped for lunch after 55kms and had a large burger and some soup, before setting off on the next 40kms through Bath and Bristol. Despite our navigation errors and the intervention of mother nature once again, we found our way to Backwell town by 5. This hailstorm had much larger iceblocks than the one the day before but luckily we found shelter in a petrol station, not a prickly hedge.
315kms now covered, in the past 4 days.
No comments:
Post a Comment