Day 11 – Ballach to Fort William
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. […]
Day 10 – Biggar to Ballach
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 [...]
Day 9 – Falstone to Biggar
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. […]
Day 8 – Barnard Castle to Falstone
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! […]
LEJOG Day 2: Fowey to Exeter
Daily Distance: 78 miles Total Distance: 151 miles Conditions: Sunny with light wind The team woke early and made excellent progress from Fowey to Plymouth, using two ferry crossings on the way (and blagging the fare for free). The long hill climb out of Plymouth seemed endless, and was the start of a long ride [...]
LEJOG Day 1: Lands End to Fowey
Day 1: Lands End to Fowey Daily Distance: 73 miles (should have been 65!) Total Distance: 73 miles Conditions: Pleasantly sunny and warm! This morning we travelled from Penzance to Lands End in the bus. We were all excited but also very nervous! By the time we had sorted the bikes, taken some photos and [...]
LEJOG team set off for Lands End!
The bus is packed and the Andover LEJOG team are ready to set off for Penzance this afternoon, where they will meet the other riders (Francis and Josh). Riding starts tomorrow (Saturday) morning at Lands End - wish us luck!
LEJOG team prepare for their 1000 mile bike ride
This Friday (10th August) sees the start of the epic bike ride from Lands End to John O'Groats. Mr Woods, Mr Gardner and Mr Hudson will ride for 14 days, joined in the second week by Jon Land. The team hope to keep this website updated with reports, photos and video as they go - [...]
Little rays of sunshine
Over the last few weeks Year 8 students in Mrs Collins’ art class have been working with children from Harrow Way Pre-school helping them to make and paint clay sunflowers and pea-pods. […]
Head’s Corner – July 2007
I recall in my last Head’s corner my optimistic comments about looking forward to warm sunshine for a few months. How wrong can one be? Perhaps we should be optimistic now about the possibility of some seasonal weather during the summer break and maybe even an Indian Summer later on! [...]