Today started with amazing weather and a healthy appetite to get on the road! We departed Glencoe and were quickly through Fort William and beyond onto Loch Lochey! Here we beat the support crew to the rendezvous! This is when I discovered I had a broken spoke on my brand new wheels! A change of wheels and gear cassettes took 20 minutes and we were on the road again!
Soon we were upon the shores of Loch Ness! I thought I saw the monster, but it turned out to be a rather large stick - Something that I think can have tricked many people ;)
It was along these roads that I suffered my second mechanical failure of the day - a snapped gear cable. This meant cycling the final 8 miles with only 8 gears which made life very difficult. By Urquart Castle I changed the cable whilst eating on the go and we were away again!
Here we took a route which resulted in a climb of a 10% hill which was around a mile and a half long. This led to Andy and I walking the final half mile, but this was most definitely the hardest hill of the entire trip so far!
We cycled the final miles to our night's stay in Tain... The base camp for the assault on John O'Groats for the final day's cycling! It's gone so quickly - one day we're counting down to day nine and in the blink of an eye, it's here!!!!
I don't know how it's going to feel when we finish, but I imagine, pretty good!
I'll keep you updated!
TK
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