Another 8.45 start, waved off by Julie and Matt. The weather looked threatening all day. It tanked down for twenty minutes just before Tebay where I stopped at the motorway services for lunch. The climb to Shap summit was nowhere near as bad as I had been led to believe. Drizzly rain set in as I approached Carlisle where I had trouble finding the YH. Matt, Steve and Andy were in the rooms opposite. It was normally student accommodation; there was no food on so I settled for a Subway instead. I had the only boring experience of the trip – a 15 mile stretch of the A6- straight as a die and as dull as dishwater. Six hours and six minutes in the saddle, 68.79 miles and an average speed of 11.2 mph.
No comments:
Post a Comment