Nessie where are you?

Tonight see's us next to Loch Ness, there is no sign of any monsters, although there may be some excited Nessie spotters tonight when Alan starts snoring.

We left Tyndrum, very quickly this morning to get away from the midges, they were everywhere, although the Avon skin so soft does seem to work as a repellant. There was a long, long climb up to Ranoch Moor, which we all climbed pretty well, given that we have been in the saddle for 9 days. We crossed the moor and then had a long and welcome drop down to Glencoe. We met Claire at Fort William, after she had overcome some issues with Gert with the help of those nice people from the AA. We had thought of stopping in Fort William for the night, but decided that we still had some juice left in the legs and so we carried on up the Great Glen until we found a campsite in Fort Augustus, not after having our teeth shaken out riding along the Caledonian Canal towpath.

Once again the campsite where a little nervous letting a group of 3 blokes and a woman stay, and it needed all of Claires negotiation skills to convince the campsite staff that we where not a bunch of rowdy yoof's, well that and the woman took one look at us and realised that we would all be tucked up in bed with cocoa by the time Claire had parked the van.

Iain's bike had some problems today the rear wheel bearings had given up, which explains why he has been a little off the pace at times(guess who is writing this).

Looking at the map we could finish on Wednesday, however once again our casual lack of planning means that Alan's wife, Maria and her friend Alix are getting to to JOG on Thursday, so the we now have a fairly relaxed run in of 60 miles a day for the next two days and then a short 15 miles run to JOG, well that's the theory anyway.

Matt's top cycling tip, always use synthetic lubricant to avoid unpleasant blockages.

Question of the day - why put a place on the map when there is nothing there, Invergarry this means you.

Peace

Iain, Alan, Matt and Claire