Tuesday 26 May 2009

Knutsford in good time, more end to enders and Dave's bike upside down again.

Leaving Ben and Vicky's this morning was a bit of a wrench - good food and
good company to be replaced by more A roads...

Breakfast was that of champions - porridge and bacon sandwiches, along with
smoothies, berocca and tea. Fully fuelled we headed off to Preston along
the A6 and managed quite a pace getting to the city entrance in little over
an hour (it's 18 miles from Lancaster) - but then spent the best part of an
hour getting through the city.

Along the way we were passed by a couple more end to enders who started the
same day as us, but expected to finish in 3 days.

With a bit of a tail wind (I'd forgotted what it feels like), we pushed on
through wigan and into warrington - where we had planned to have lunch,
trouble is, it was only 11:45.

We decided to get to knutsford before having lunch but 1 mile away Dave got
another puncture, so we had to take another 15 minutes to sort that out.

It's a mere 25 miles from here to stoke, which we should get out of the way
in. Few hours this afternoon, allowing us a sit down and pint in the sun
this evening.

1 comment:

Ben A said...

Glad you enjoyed the hospitality, it's the least we could do (well, Vicky really), seeing as what you are putting yourselves through.... keep it up....