So the good points. There must be some! We had a delicious coffee and cake in Brou and then managed to be on the tail wind of the fast cyclists for about 10 miles. It really made me appreciate how birds fly in formation. What else was good - lunch and Theresa's biscuits and a hot showers on arrival at the hotel. We have just learnt we are in the eye of a cyclone and the first 4 hours of today might be in our favour and then we face the wind again. Let's hope it's all good but feeling a bit despondent. Things can only get better. The Lycra is trying to dry, the bottom is sore from hours on the saddle but the spirit is still going.
So on our first day yesterday we lost an hours sleep as we moved into French time and then a further hours sleep as the clocks went forward. That's the first bit of bad news. We then woke up to rain and cloud. Not put off we set with a smile on our face, how naive, we spent the next 130km going south west facing a south westerly wind which I have been informed was going at 40miles an hour. At one point we were peddling as fast as we could only to look at the speedometer telling us 5 miles an hour!!! Not a good day. It took all those that finished an extra 2 hours, I'm so chuffed to say that I did finish, many didn't.
So the good points. There must be some! We had a delicious coffee and cake in Brou and then managed to be on the tail wind of the fast cyclists for about 10 miles. It really made me appreciate how birds fly in formation. What else was good - lunch and Theresa's biscuits and a hot showers on arrival at the hotel. We have just learnt we are in the eye of a cyclone and the first 4 hours of today might be in our favour and then we face the wind again. Let's hope it's all good but feeling a bit despondent. Things can only get better. The Lycra is trying to dry, the bottom is sore from hours on the saddle but the spirit is still going.
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paul bright
3/29/2015 07:38:06 pm
Well done Philippa, fantastic effort in the face of that horrible wind! Pretty blowy here too on Sun, thinking of you today and following you on the mapP&Cxx
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Sophia Wallis
3/29/2015 11:40:21 pm
Well done Philippa, the wind is definitely the worst thing to have against you, but incredible that you kept going! I am inspired. Hoping today is easier.
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Michael Holford
3/30/2015 03:47:24 am
Go Philippa!
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Mary
3/30/2015 04:03:09 am
Will be praying for a drop in the wind and a bit more sunshine. Well done for keeping going......knew you would!!!!
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Don Williams
3/30/2015 04:03:58 am
Well done Phillippa it will get easier as the muscles get used to the distance, trust me be there and had the pain.
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