Epilogue 0f Random Thoughts and Stats!

It is Monday evening, I have been back at work today and enjoyed telling people about my adventure.  I got presented with a yellow jersey with Bradley Wiggins (with my face) pinned to it, thank you work buddies for doing that.

I came home and washed and polished Ruby, she is now sparkling clean and ready for another ride.

I missed being on the bike today and missed the company of the group.  I will most definitely do something like this again, and if anyone who did this trip wants to join in, even better.

Work was ok, it was so busy I hardly got time to think and if I start feeling stressed by work I will sit down, take a deep breath and think about our trip.  I will also make myself laugh because Rachel reckons if you pretend to laugh eventually you will actually really laugh.  However, I will only need to think of our evening in the Street Youth Hostel and that will make me laugh a lot!

I have added up a few numbers for your perusal...

Distance ridden - 998.56 miles
Total ascent - 19,994 metres (about 2.3 x Mt Everest)
Calories burned - 71,681 kcal wow!
Time in the saddle - 79 hrs 18 mins 44 seconds
Packs of Tangfastics consumed - 12 (oops!)
New facebook friends - 8 (at the moment)
Amount of money spent on WiFi - £17 - come on peeps, free WiFi is the way to go (especially the Holiday Inn!!)
Number of funny moments - too many to count, but every one of them brilliant
Number of times I cried - 3 (twice when I fell off and at the end!)
Favourite names of towns - Wormelow, Longdown and see photo below!

I will finish this blog with a quote that sums up the last two weeks

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Thank you for reading, I will finish here and hopefully start a new blog with a new adventure next year!
Janet x