Day 1

This blog is designed to give you all the events of our little trip from bottom to the top of the country by bike (or car), and today the first day was certainly eventful by all means...

The day begun at 3.00 am and we set off from the Ford in the packed car, full of kit, bikes, spare bikes, the world supply of food supplements which I don't really understand but remarkably we arrived in Lands End and the boys set off for what was going to be an absolute mission up the country...
....within two hours we had our first rescue call - now, I know a few of you have had bets on who would be the first to take a tumble and hot off the press I can reveal it was indeed ALEX! Sam describes it as 'overly heroic, superman dive over his brand new handle bars into the soft and cushioning A30', I blame a cats eye but you never know do you?  So after a serious dosage of road rash and a possible dislocated hand it still wouldn't sabotage his determination to finish the day. He is in Exeter A&E as we speak having an x-ray.  I'll keep you posted!

A big thank you to Penny and Fred who met us along the way for some much needed support...

Anyway a picture tells a thousand words and all that...

Miles: 101
Climb: 1650m
Average Speed: 16.9 mph
Hills: long and copious
Falls: 1