In the immortal words of Ice Cube, "Today was a good day".
Thanks to the weather delay Huddersfield was covered on Saturday, resulting in a much reduced mileage today.
Starting the day in Colne at Steven Burke's postbox wearing my slightly delayed, but nonetheless awesome customised cycling jersey...
I met up with an old school and Uni friend, Stu Powers who took the train from Lancaster to join in for the day, which helped bring about the most fun ride of the challenge. From Colne to Blackburn for a quick cup of soup, flapjack and banana (thanks to my Dad running the support vehicle) we got over to Eccleston for the first of two Wiggo boxes before (eventually) rolling through to Chorley to collect the second...
After that, due to a good pace being set we were able to take our time heading to Bolton. Stu was starting to struggle - this was his first ride for a few weeks and his longest of the winter/spring season - so a stop off for Frederick's for the world's greatest ice cream was well deserved, followed 20mins down the road by a quick brew at home before the final 10-15mins into the town centre to get both of Jason Kenny's boxes...
Stu then went over to the train station to head back to Lancs before I was collected by my Dad and brought home for a mountain of spag bol and a cheeky couple of beers.
Another short day tomorrow, Bolton to Liverpool for the ferry to the Isle of Man, let's hope this dry weather continues because that will definitely keep me motivated, as will any offers of company along the way!
"Today I didn't even have to use my AK, I got to say it was a good day"
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