Day 6 Clun to Runcorn

"This is a long day in terms of mileage but an easy day in terms of terrain. The route away from Clun is undulating through to Shrewsbury with a couple of notable climbs (nothing like the hill to Clun) & also a long gradual descent that seems to go on for ever"

The howling of wind in the night made an ominous start to the day, with gusts of 25+ mph promised across what was to be open terrain.

Last night I had the pleasure of Julie's company and she was to provide some pictures. Dinner in the White Horse was good and they serve a lovely pint (Hobsons in this case)

 
 The morning briefing was a particularly good humoured affair and 5 of us decided to set up a chain gang, which came together after the climb out of Clun, when we had the road to ourselves. Working with one another we were soon bowling along and by the first tea break (which was too early and spoiled the wonderful descent from Hope) we were averaging over 16mph.

Leaving the B&B

As a result we arrived at the lunch stop at 11:30 (30 minutes before it opened, and we missed the afternoon tea stop because the van had not arrived.

The route was fast and long and many of the riders have been in new territory today hitting their biggest ever distances, many are very tired.

Our peleton arrived at the finish at 15:20 just before the bags! I dropped off to sleep for a couple of hours I was brain dead tired.





 Stats for today 79.79 miles, 3416 ft of climb average 15.2, max 43.5.

In summary a long fast day into headwinds