Day 2 is now done, dusted and in the past. Another 115 in the bag so 239 down 661 still to do. The weather was the biggest factor today. The rain started 1 mile into the ride and it never really stopped. It varried in strength from drizzle to hammering it down, but you knoe things are not good when the road you are on has a current. Smaller roads today, up side - much more senic than yesterday, passed through several very nice villages. Down side the road surface was not great. My bloody sat nav took me up a road that got narrower and narrower until I was on nothing more than a dirt path – things got even better when the path started to climb, there must have been a 15% gradient, on wet mud, with thin tyres in the rain – traction noexistant had to walk – that was bad enough. 
Will be interested to see my heart rate data – will have to go sit in the cat and get inline as there is no phone reception in the room. My avaerage speed was down to 16.9 considering the weather and the fact that I was trying to take it easy is quite encuraging. My legs fely quite good, thighs are good, both front and back, calves are good, knees are alittle twingy but nothing too bad at the mo. Longer day tomorrow, so an early start and the plan is again to take it easy. Could be more traffic tomorrow as its not a Sunday or a bank holiday. Better weather would be nice.
In short the wind made it hard work, the rain made it miserable, the cold caused by the wet and the wind made it more miserable, the thought of a bath and coffee made it doable. I am now going to see if I can get my ride data to work.