A friend is currently travelling from Lands End to John O Groats on his mountain bike using off-road routes wherever possible. It is a charity ride. It will take about 3 weeks all being well at a steady rate of 50-70 miles a day. We met him on Saturday late afternoon in Ashbourne having cycled up from Derby on the train (20 miles). He had been joined by a friend from Winchester on Saturday and he stayed with us over the weekend. On Sunday we followed the Tissington Trail and then round Lady Bower Reservoir up to Penistone (55 miles). We went over Cut Gate which is apparently in the Top Ten of UK Mountain Bike Rides which seemed a bit churlish on a hybrid (mine) and with a trailer carrying about 20KG (Stewart). Monday was the run home from Penistone to Hebden Bridge via the Pennine Bridleway, Marsden, Littleborough and the Rochdale Canal (50 miles). This is all in training for the London to Paris in July. There was a touch of the Douglas Bader about on Tuesday but managed to commute today albeit with a puncture at the bottom of Queensbury - no punctures all weekend despite the rought terrain and then a blow out on the main road. Typical.
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