Hollyoaks

Here we are in Chester, home of Hollyoaks, unfortunatly none of the cast has come to see us pass by. It's a shame that we are in the historic Roman town of Chester and all we can associate it with us second division soap opera.

Last night was about the closest we would get to home, so parents and wives all turned up. We ate out in a pub for the first time since we left LE on Saturday. We left Hereford at 08:50 this morning and went through Leominster, stopping briefly in Ludlow for drugs (Matt needed hayfever tablets). Carrying on we met Claire and Dan in Shrewsbury for some carb laden tuna pasta.

The afternoon saw us bashing on through Wem and Whitchurch before getting to Chester at 16:00. The longest distance in a day so far at 87 miles, bringing the total distance to 360 miles, which is the furthest any of us has ever cycled in one chunk. The distances have started to seem strange now, almost surreal.
We are aiming for Kendal tomorrow, so that will be the Lake District, hopefully we will be in Scotland by Friday.
Alan and Iain have both started to feel some aches and pains now, which was to be expected from the more senior riders, unfortunatly the rocks we have added to Matt's bike don't seem to have worked in slowing him down, so we'll have to find some other way to bring him down to a pace more suited for middle aged men.

Peace

Iain, Alan and Matt