We cycled nearly 100 miles through the hills of the Lake District on bikes, all in one day, with a major climb up Wrynose Pass somewhere in the middle and we raised some cash for a few of the charities I am interested in.

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As I write, I’ve been back home one and a half hours. Job done. Total distance 91.7 miles, up and down the hills of South Lakeland. Average speed 11.7 mph, but who’s counting? I have not fully recovered.

It was a bit of a shock when I dismounted to find that my legs had turned to jelly. Tea at the cafe, then an absolute b****d hill out of Broughton got me walking for the first time. I don’t know what’s worse: walking with the bike or giving it your all with no spare gears to hand. My legs weren’t quite the same for the rest of the ride.

On we went through the Duddon valley, the ups exceeding the downs as we approached Wrynose. Lovely scenery and the day had been absolutely cracking – a perfect blue-sky day, not so much wind to slow you down, but just enough to stop you cooking. And thank goodness for factor 25; I came through the day relatively unburnt.

I didn’t in the end get as far up Wrynose pass as I
 

We were averaging a rapid 15.7mph until the first big hill of the day, but Grizebeck,
just before Broughton, soon put a stop to that. (I actually had it down as the third big hill, but what do I know?) John shot up it at twice my speed, but despite me coming down at 38.9mph – my fastest speed of the day – we were back to more usual averages.

After Grizebeck it was up another steady hill to Broughton-in-Furness for our tea stop.

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I hope you will follow the links above and support me because I would like all my huffing and blowing over Wrynose to serve some purpose other than to loosen off my lycra; specifically, I’d love to raise a little money for my favourite charities.

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