Ride stats today

Nottingham to Cambridge
70 miles
100 sheep. 25 cows. 1 pony on a leash (see video)

Today started out a bit rocky but ended on a high note.  We’ve been in the UK for nearly two weeks now, and the longest rain we’ve biked through has been 30 minutes…until today.  I guess we’ve been pretty lucky [...]

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Today is a scheduled rest day in Nottingham.  We’ve got beautiful weather here and it’s a great little town to enjoy.  Since we don’t have any ride stories from today, I thought I’d share a short article that I came across in Outside Magazine.  Here is a link to the web version of the article.  [...]

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Ride stats today

Newcastle to Leeds
90 miles
5100 feet climbed
4000 sheep; 200 cows; 7 horses

The winds were strong early on, but eased after a few hours.  We fought a similar terrain profile as yesterday for the first 30 miles, but the middle 30 miles of our route was on a highway with more consistent grading and low [...]

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Ride stats today

Edinburgh to  Newcastle
110 miles
6875 feet climbed
Winds: 15 mph sustained, gusting to 35 mph
6500 sheep; 1200 cows

Tough Roads; Tough Weather. Today turned into quite a late day. We looked at the altitude profile last night, and it looked like a tame day compared with the rest of our days in Scotland. Although our [...]

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No ride today. We rested in Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland. The pictures tell a thousand words. But in short we

Visited the Edinburgh castle
Spoke with Tim the Manager of the large Edinburgh Bike Co-op, and
Visited local cultural shops.

It was a wonderfully relaxing day, and our quads, hammies and gluts thanked us for the rest.
A [...]

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Ride stats today

Perth to Edinburg
60 miles
3000 feet climbed
1 huge bridge
1500 sheep

Our blog today will come in the form of 3 videos.  We’re too tired to blog.  Short version…Ride today was scheduled to be 40 miles.  Arrived at Edinburgh bridge (5 miles to hotel) at 2 PM.  Arrived at hotel just after 4 PM.  We saw [...]

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