Monday, 5 August 2013

Day 3 – Somerset, Monmouthshire & Herefordshire - 94 miles




Blog for day 3 is a day late as it was Jenko’s 40th Birthday. Any spare time was spent recovering from previous evening or convincing ourselves we can be elite athletes and have a pint whenever we want one.

Yet again motivational shouts of ‘don’t worry stilly, it’s another flat one today’ were slapped rudely in the face by Monmouthshire and then Herefordshire. Oh my god it’s hilly there, and they are steep! If this wasn’t a shock waiting to happen the heaven’s decided to opened after ten minutes of setting out and we were subjected to rain followed by more and harder rain for the remainder of the day.


We were joined today by on old school friend of Jenko’s, who happily cycled from Gloucestershire to meet us in Clevedon, Fair doo’s! Ian was not our only visitor to call Jenko and old man. Windsor and Penny joined us in for Herefordshire for some celebratory ales’. Not sure if it's fatigue, but we are certainly favouring Welsh ale compared to the south west brews. We lay down the challenge to Northern England and Scotland



Originally committed to not drinking until we finished each day we had a massive fail today by a) choosing a pub for lunch b) being confronted by this celebratory brew. It was as if the cycling gods were speaking to us therefore we were obliged to partake.

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