15st 2lb, 26 miles of up and down and round about at an average speed of just 13.9mph. A brand new course that took in just about every hill in the area, and which was wickedly planned by John to ensure that at all points on the circuit, bar none, the wind was in my face. Totally knackered I was, at the end. 

I’ve just got to do better – the Wrynose route is almost four times as far and brutally hilly. I figure that if I can get to Ulpha, just north of Broughton in Furness in the Duddon valley, and still feel reasonably strong, I’ll be able to beat it. I say this because I drove the early stages to this section last Friday and was reminded that the ups and downs to Ulpha are definitely not for the faint hearted. Nor indeed for the sane – but this is not a rational challenge for your average 60-year-old (me).

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