…and so it starts! After an early breakfast at the St Just Youth Hostel the 9 of us staying there got our bikes ready with what we needed, packed our bags into the van and set off for the short cycle down to Land’s End.
Land’s End, what can I say? It is not quite what I expected, a little bit theme parky to be honest, but I guess it gets a lot of visitors. We met with the rest of the group (24 of us in total) and did our Land’s End Photos. We have a young guy Josh, cycling with us dressed as a chicken which made the photoshoot very funny, both to us and onlookers! We then headed for Penzance and Marazion where we stopped for a cuppa out of the support van, then into the very hilly Cornish countryside towards Perranwell where our lunch stop was at The Royal Oak pub. The Chicken had many hilarious comments thrown at him, along with a bit of money for his charity and a few feathers that had fallen off his suit!
After lunch we set off again up some crackingly steep climbs and then down to the King Harry Chain Ferry across the River Fall, a 5 minute crossing. After a few more very steep Cornish climbs we arrived in St Austell at what appeared to be rush hour…until we remembered it was Sunday! Up until this point the smallish group that was cycling together had had no mishaps…and then I managed to do the obligatory fall over at traffic lights in front of a great line of traffic, and then couldn’t unattach the bike from my foot! We arrived at our Youth Hostel at around 4.30pm, a great day in the saddle, hot and sunny conditions and plenty of hills, and then we found out Andy Murray had won gold at the Olympics which topped it off nicely…time for a beer!!
Major Roadkill – 1 x Smelly Badger, 1 x Squelchy Rat (now partially adorning Rachel’s wheel) 2 x rabbits, 1 x crow and a shoe!
Punctures – nil
Chain drops – Rachel 2, Janet 1
Lost chicken feathers – too many, he’ll be plucked by Wednesday!
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