LEJOG Day3

As you can see we started off the day in outstanding fettle - for those who don't know us all, from L to R Richard, Martin, Stewart, Peter. Our day opened with another delightful rail track ride from Bridestowe to Okehampton, in perfect cycling conditions (apart of course from the continuing Nor Easter).

One of the technological advances of contemporary cycling is cleated shoes which clip into your pedals, but which require a certain dexterity of foot when you stop. As the man at Condor Bike Shop said, there are two kinds of people who wear cleated shoes: those who are going to fall over and those who have done so. Stewart was determined to be in the latter camp, hence the involuntary pit stop shown above. Then shortly after that he unfortunately mislaid his odometer. This is not, as you might think, a device for determining when your cycling colleagues are next due a bath, but rather one for recording distances, speeds, times etc. Happily it turned up.

After the rail track, we battled a stiff series of hills to Crediton where we lunched at the excellent Three Little Pigs. Then thanks to the man in The Bike Shop in Crediton, we took a fine and altitudinally forgiving detour around Mount Tiverton (as we designated it), culminating in our approaching Tiverton up the beautiful Exe Valley.

Another 47 miles completed, making 157 so far, with legs, cardiovasculars and posteriors all still present and correct.

Intermittent map tracks on Days 2 and 3 are due mainly to Martin's semi trained condition. This should improve as he does.