Distance day 1 : 40 Cumulative : 40
Location : Glastonbury, http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=51.15385,-2.72614
Well we made it to our first campsite on the outskirts of Glastonbury at 7.20 last night and boy what a day.
After missing our train at paddington I should have remembered the saying "it happens in 3s".
When Steve got on his bike at Bristol his tyre had lost pressure. Pumped it up & waited a bit & it went down again, slow puncture. Thats 2.
Whilst I changed the innertube we discovered my spare tubes were the wrong size. And thats 3.
I carried on replacing Steve's tube whilst he asked a couple of passing cyclists for directions to the nearest bike shop.
By the time the bike was fixed & I had spare tubes it was 12. A much later start than we had planned.
Even before getting out of Bristol we started encountering horrendous hills & thats how the day continued. The hills almost killed me and we had to get off and push our bikes up some of them. Steve gets the king of the mountains shirt as he fought his way up more of them than me. When we did get to the top there were good views, once your vision had cleared. We had a great view from the Mendips down on Glastonbury Tor.
All the hills really sapped our energy so by the end of the day 1 we were exhausted. I couldn't even eat the dinner we got from the local pub, I just needed sleep.
This morning I feel recharged & ready. Hopefully less hills today...
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