Well the plan to start early and ride about 50/60 miles was thwarted by a rather large friday night out!!! I think I crawled into bed about 4am and Helen about 6am!! Downed rather a lot of cocktails. Went out straight from work having not eaten a lot, but luckily those creamy cocktails are a meal in themselves!!!
Woke up with a large headache and stayed in bed, choosing to ignore the phone with the knowledge it was Helen!! (sorry Hels). Eventually phoned her back. Would either of us buckle and call it off……
Eventually headed out on the B4114 which is a rather fast and busy road. Nice sunny day for cycling, but my head was still a little sore.
A very poor 10 miles later we arrived at Stoney Cove Dive Centre. The car park was full of scuba divers. Sat out on the deck of the pub and enjoyed Brie, Bacon and Cranberry Bagette with chips and glass of coke. Perfect hangover cure.
Headed back to Leicester via Narborough and the Narborough Hall gift shop. Lots of beautiful things. Helen and I then had a very serious conversation about what would happen if we wanted to buy any souvenirs or gifts on the ‘End to End’…… seriously like we are going to have time to shop!!! ….. anyway we could always get it posted!!
Another 10 miles and we were done!!
What we learnt: Perhaps we need to be a bit more sensible the night before a bike ride and shopping on the end-end is problably quite a low priority!
