DAY 1 - 24/06/09
Distance: 70.1 miles
Cycling Time: 6hrs 33min
Average Speed: 10.6 mph
Woke up this morning to glorious sunshine and a howling Easterly wind! And we’re heading east!!
We left Lands End at 8:30am and arrived at Lostwithiel at 5pm, in between the wind battered us all the way.
We took a mixture of major and minor roads today. The major roads were very open, windy and busy with cars whizzing past every second, but they were much more direct. The minor roads were more scenic, lovely hedgerows, quiet but very circuitous and hilly.
We did a bit of the Cornish Way from Lands End to Penzance (great views of St. Michael’s Mount), some main roads around St. Truro and St. Austell and bits of other minor roads elsewhere.
Everyone says Cornwall is hilly, and it is! We don’t think there are any flat bits - you are constantly going up and down, up and down! The hills are not particularly steep, they just keep coming….
Overall, a very pleasant day made hard by the wind. Tomorrow we have to get over Dartmoor, which should be a challenge, all be it a scenic one!
Calorie Burner Counter – Day 1 (to date)
Pints of Beer = 13
Bottles of Wine = 3
Pies = 3
Distance: 70.1 miles
Cycling Time: 6hrs 33min
Average Speed: 10.6 mph
Woke up this morning to glorious sunshine and a howling Easterly wind! And we’re heading east!!
We left Lands End at 8:30am and arrived at Lostwithiel at 5pm, in between the wind battered us all the way.
We took a mixture of major and minor roads today. The major roads were very open, windy and busy with cars whizzing past every second, but they were much more direct. The minor roads were more scenic, lovely hedgerows, quiet but very circuitous and hilly.
We did a bit of the Cornish Way from Lands End to Penzance (great views of St. Michael’s Mount), some main roads around St. Truro and St. Austell and bits of other minor roads elsewhere.
Everyone says Cornwall is hilly, and it is! We don’t think there are any flat bits - you are constantly going up and down, up and down! The hills are not particularly steep, they just keep coming….
Overall, a very pleasant day made hard by the wind. Tomorrow we have to get over Dartmoor, which should be a challenge, all be it a scenic one!
Calorie Burner Counter – Day 1 (to date)
Pints of Beer = 13
Bottles of Wine = 3
Pies = 3
I don't believe that you have eaten three pies
ReplyDeleteIs that 3 bottles + 13 pints each? No wonder the route is very circuitous!
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