Day 0 Saturday 9 May 2009
Well the bike and luggage fitted onto Roger's Lotus Elise ok and it was still on when we got to the Commercial Hotel in St Just. Strangely the bike had a flat rear tyre though, which it didn't have when we set off. It turned out to be a failed repair in the inner tube so I put a new tube in and all was well. A few beers, a meal, a couple of whiskys and early to bed at midnight.
Day 1 87.99 miles time 6:35:21 average speed 13.3mph Max speed 41.72mph
A great breakfast in the hotel and then just 6 miles to Lands End in the Lotus. We got there at 8:30 but unfortunately the famous signpost doesn't open ubtil 10:30 on a Sunday so Roger took my photo under a fingerless post.
I set off at 9am and the weather has been perfect all day; sunshine, coolish and only a light headwind. It's been fairly incident free except for a road closure which threw me a bit because I'm using notes rather than a map. It took me a while to find a way round the diversion which didn't have a "trigger" sign to say where to go. I only lost about 15 mins though.
Lunch at Morrisons in Newquay was ok. Roger has bought me three spare inner tubes now but he's off back to work tomorrow and I'll be on my own heading for Wells in Somerset into a 20mph headwind.
Sarah at the Eagle House Hotel has kindly let me use her laptop to update the blog so a big thank you to her; and a big thank you to Roger for getting me down here and making sure I got away ok.
Its 104 miles tomorrow so I may feel a bit more tired tomorrow night but so far so good.
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