Day 8 Our Penultimate day

Today proved to be particularly eventful, all kicking off at about 6:50 this morning. In our room of 6 at the youthhostel, we woke up to Guys ‘modern alarm clock tune,’ the black eyed peas, which made a nice change to the rather painful previous alarm. Shortly after the alarm, word soon spread around the hostel about Ben Adams. Nobody knew what had happened to him, many questions were asked, but no answers given- had he made a run for home? Had he sprinted for the self glorifying early finish? In fact it was none of the above. It was to be much worse news.

Today, LEJOG took its first casualty- Ben had suffered from a sickness bug. Our fallen hero had previously battled through 5 days with bad knee injuries, sweltering heat conditions, love sickness and having to make his own bed whilst mike took over Hannah for a few days. After taking a day out Ben hopes to return to the team for another eventful day of riding tomorrow.

Whilst the sickness was occurring, Chris decided not to take note of the toilet door sign, and relieve himself in the ladies toilet, much to the amusement of the females present at the time.

After a hearty breakfast of porridge oats and orange juice we were ready to pack the car to set off. Hannah, our support mum/ team/ driver, has constantly kept a clean and tidy car for us, which being men we are truly grateful for.

We soon set off on our way looking ahead at the 85 miles which lay before us. As arranged we met Hannah at the commando memorial, however the cyclists beat the support team to the meeting place. Initially, this seemed odd. Hannah had never been late before. Was Ben a distraction? All was clear when the car turned up with Morrisons bags packed to the roof with food for our lunch and tea.

Our fast pace soon paid off as we cruised past loch lomond and onto Loch ness, just in time for the last ride on Nessy.

 

Time flew by and we arrived at Inverness Youth Hostel, to find our meal lovingly prepared by Hannah. Our chef special tonight was ‘bunnai chow,’ a South African curry dish, (pictures to follow), which was enjoyed by all.

 

Early start tomorrow so we plan to get an early night, apart from Ben (Bramhill) and Nathan who are sharing a room with 6 fat old men, probably snorers.

Other News:

Chris has been shown where the Gents toilets are.


David has now managed 2 days successfully without getting a puncture


The atmosphere is generally happy


Ben B and Nathan continue to amaze with their cycling and humour.