Well day 3 done. That was by far the longest day so far, 134 miles and just short of 8 hrs pedalling. The duration was partly due to me trying to take it easy and protect my knee and party due to the traffic. My knee is really odd, it was sore for the first 20 miles or so and then gradually got better. If I stopped it flared up again for a mile or so and then settled down. I appears that its ok when its turning over at a steady tempo but when it stops and starts that’s when it plays up. This became very evident when crawling my way round the ring road at Leicester, again on Nottingham’s ring road and once again in Mansfield. Problem is it looks like tomorrow is going to be similar. The last three days are however open road and so should not be too bad ( I hope )
Some lovely villages today I would be happy to come back at some point and have a proper look round.
High point of the day was the road side shout out from Matt. I can’t believe that he just happened to be driving on the road that I just happened to be cycling on at the same time – really odd.
The weather helped today. I must admit my head was going towards the end, not helped by the sat nav trying to take me down a private road – a few extra miles when you have already done 128 and are only 2 from the end is not good for moral.
Still I managed to eat better today, still not enough though.
message to the Plodding Blogger - sorry I bailed yesterday. I was out on my feet, bit like today really. The only reason I am still up is so I can eat again before bed.