Trip distance 65.9miles
Av speed; 10.41
Cycling time. 6hr 18m
An anticipated long hard day was thought be made even tougher when we woke to heavy rain in Lostwithiel. This fortunately eased off as we tucked into our full english and we were able to climb out of Lostwithiel and get on with a slow tough initial 7 miles on a busy a road towards Liskeard leaving about 930am.
Made it onto some welcome country lanes and headed across the south east corner of bodmin moor reaching the village of Minions before a spectacular long descent and then another tough 10 miles to Horsebridge and the crossing from Cornwall to Devon. Further steep ascents and descents meant we made slow progress before arriving for a late lunch in a cafe in Linford at the foothills of Dartmoor. A bit demoralised and worried by the slow progress (30miles by 2pm) , we set off to try and get some more miles under our belts. A couple of miles later we joined onto the granite way - a stunning 12+ mile route along a disused railway track running along the north west side of dartmoor running up to okehampton. The flat surface was a very welcome relief to try and bring our pitiful daily average speed back up. On top of that we were lucky to see some great scenery westwards to devon and east to dartmoor with two v impressive viaducts esp at they were only built in the late 19th c.
Pleased with the progress at okehampton we loaded up with some more water and energy drinks and met 3 other guys doing the same trip to jog and planning to arrive the day before us.
The weather by now had really started to clear and become quite sunny which made the undulating last 20 miles to our inn accomodation along country lanes that bit more pleasant stopped in Crediton for some provisions before climbing upto the red lion inn in shobrooke. Hosts v friendly and great to be so close to food and beer. A couple of beers and another hearty meal along with joining in with the local quiz bfore heading upstairs to another well earned sleep.
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