Cycle trauma for the day - 2 new tyres and gear cable damage. The only people so far unscathed are Simon & Howard. That has of course jinxed us...
Glyn was Captain of the Road with his brother in law Mark and his friend Chris in attendance as guest riders.
We set off towards Leyland and somehow managed to give the wrong meeting point to Keith & Jerry, who managed to catch us up. Not difficult as we were particularly slow through the throbbing metropolis of Wigan.
First stop was at Leyland Golf Club where we gorged on anything we could find as breakfast was porridge in the room. Nice.
The Kendal Travelodge, run by Norman Bates from the Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho.
It was frustrating for the first two thirds of the day for myself as it was stop-start, lots of traffic and built up with no scenery. From Lancaster it was great with super views. 4 of the chaps went ahead as they wanted to watch the "mighty" England team play.
The wise ones stayed and paced themselves. Glyn led Matt and Terry and his mate Mike to the hotel. The long way... They ended up traversing a field of sheep, carrying bikes across a dual carriageway and getting to the hotel when England were 2-1 down. That obviously jinxed England as I am sure you are painfully aware.
With a relatively easy day the team settled down to a bike cleaning session. Simon found this a shock as he usually buys a new bike when they get dirty.
Foz spent 3 hours cleaning his steed. We thought this was OCD but realised Terry has a worse case in that he has been wearing a watch with no batteries for the past 5 days. He missed wearing one he said!
Glyn had a friend meet us at the hotel . Frank was roped into driving Glyn and Steve to Kendal where they bought a job lot of pizzas for our impromptu bike cleaning party. Life is a ball on the road...
Frank left early to clean his car out as it now stank of pizza and chips. Lucky lad.
When we get to the Premier Travel Inn at a motorway services on Monday I will upload the latest photos for today. We know we are spoilt when we are looking forward to trading up from a Travelodge!
So far, 438 miles down so halfway. Just a little climb up Shap Fell to kick the day off tomorrow. Strong southerly breeze to help us up. Bliss.
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