LEJOG Days 6 and 7 (Martin)

Day 6 - Saturday - had been planned as a rest day by the 4 guys, and so on Friday night the team dispersed, Geraldine to London, Peter to Oxford, Martin to Hay on Wye, Richard and Stewart to Cheltenham. After the rigours of the first week, this proved to be a very good thing, enabling us all to recover from the previous five days of intense physical activity.

Day 6 - Sunday - we regrouped and started again, gathering for a pub lunch on Worcester with Stewart's delightful daughterLaura and her boyfriend. We then set off for Much Wenlock in highly unfavourable conditions - the wind was howling from the North, rain was pelting down for a large part of the time, Peter had not one but two punctures, and those hills, oh those hills... As Richard said, this was like Cornwall in Worcestershire and Shropshire, to the point that we all began to think our destination would never appear. But of course it did, and we were all delighted to dismount at about 6.30 pm having put another 53 miles under our belts, taking us to 334 miles overall, or over 1/3 of our way to JO'G