The LEJOG team reached John O'Groats on Friday at around 2pm, after 14 continuous days of cycling and covering 1000 miles each. We are now safely back home, and will update this website with more details, photos and videos over the next few days. Thanks to everyone for their support - it is not too [...]
Distance: 74 miles Total distance: 840.5 Weather: Hot and sunny! Left Fort William in cold, but sunny conditions. We rocketed out of Fort William and along the road towards Loch Ness. As we left, the sight of Ben Nevis looming up into the blue sky, was a real treat, as quite often it is surrounded by [...]
Distance: 85 miles Total Distance: 766.5 miles Weather: Warm and sunny Bumpy roads and the longest ride to date made for some very sore bottoms. […]
Distance: 67 miles (easy) Total Distance: 681.5 miles Weather: Cloudy and cold turning into bright warm sunshine in the afternoon. Started at 8:55am cycling through urban areas on really bumpy roads. Did not realise what an issue that would be for a bike. A bad road makes a real difference; it [...]
Distance: 88.5 miles Total Distance: 702.5 First puncture goes to Francis. Weather: Rain, WIND!, freezing. Improving in the afternoon. Started out at 9 in miserable weather. It was absolutely freezing, with horizontal rain and wind in our faces for hours. […]
Distance: 70 miles Total Distance: 614 miles Weather: Rain, wind, cold Jon rides with us! Hooray! He is quickly amazed at how fit and muscular we all are! […]
Distance: 80 miles Total Distance: 544 miles Weather: Rain, wind, cold Another grueling day in the saddle. This is becoming less and less enjoyable and many of the team are finding the going really tough. There were lots of massive hills again, some of them 1:4 or steeper and that meant [...]
Distance: 80 miles Total Distance: 464 miles Conditions: rain, sunshine, hail and freezing Today was a super hard, very long slog over the Peak District and the start of the Pennines. There were loads of really steep hills that were also really long. It was agony from start to finish. There [...]
Distance: 68 miles Total Distance: 384 miles Conditions: Wet A hilly ride through Shropshire. As we were riding through a place called Brosely, Woodsy suddenly disappeared up a side road. It turned out that he had realised that an old Uni friend lived there and so he went to call for [...]
Daily Distance: 84 miles Total Distance: 316 miles Conditions: Rain Set off from Bristol at 9:30 and were lost by 9:31. Luckily we found a bike shop who gave us a map and some directions, so thanks to Evans Cycles in Bristol. […]