Final thoughts (for now)

Well that’s it then! I’m home, the trip is over, and its time for me to reflect wistfully on how my little jaunt has changed me deeply and forever. As you’ll know from my last entry, it was a disappointing way to end the trip, having to abandon the fnal 2 days of riding due [...]

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It wasn’t supposed to end this way!

Day 25 (Wed 16th December) Walberswick (SUFFOLK) to Colchester (ESSEX) Distance: 100.5km (Total distance 1870.5km) Time in the saddle: 5:37 Climbing: 736m As I rolled out from Walberswick on Day 25 at 9am with a hangover, the temperature barely if at all above freezing, patches of ice on the road, and the thought of at [...]

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With the Huggins

Arriving with cousin Anna in Cringleford, just on the Western edges of Norwich, started a hectic but enjoyable ‘Day In The Life’ experience, during which I tagged along and tried to slot in as best as possible with the daily routines of Anna and her two kids, Oliver (8) and Sophie (5). Anna is 29, [...]

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Near misses and nothingness

Day 21 (Sat 12th December) Thorngumbald (EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE) to Lincoln (LINCS) Distance: 93.3km (Total distance 1520.6km) Time in the saddle: 4:33 Climbing: 570m As I rolled out of Thorngumbald with the Humber Bridge on my mind, I was aware that the feel of the trip was going to change in a couple of [...]

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Heading South

Whether wisely or not, I’ve been thinking a lot during the ride about milestones that need to be reached, and how they impact on my likelihood of completing it. As I’d mentioned before, I’ve been quite focussed throughout on wanting to complete the ride, and been nervous from the start about my ability to manage [...]

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Yorkshire Pudding

So titled because (a) I’ve made it to my Mum’s house in Yorkshire, and (b) I weighed myself an hour ago and have managed miraculously to remain the same (over) weight that I started the trip at over 2 weeks ago, and despite cycling 800 miles. What should have been a chance for me to [...]

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Hit the North!

I rolled into Altrincham, in South Manchester last night. I grew up in South Manchester til I was 18, and spent a couple of those years living with my Dad and his second wife around Altrincham, but the place holds little in the way of nostalgic memories really. For now its main significance is that [...]

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