Thu 28 Jul Fort William to Inverbeg

This was a day that we had been a bit worried about, knowing that it was going to be in excess of 70 miles and cycling up through Glen Coe.  As it turned out if was tremendous and although we hit another record with our longest ever mileage (75.8 miles) it was not as tiring as the day before.

It was a long climb up through Glen Coe but we just got into a low gear and took it steady.  The road was quite busy in places however at other times it was clear and when we went up through Glen Coe it was quite earie.

At the top of the pass we had our picture taken with a piper and then commenced some tremendous downhills.  Some of them seemed to go on for ages (thankfully).

Yes its fair to say that it was a great days cycling and it was made all the better due to the fact the people of Scotland have been fantastic.  We have had lots of drivers shouting out good wishes and waving to us.  Also we discovered to our surprise that when we stopped we had people approaching us and giving us money towards the charity.  I am very pleased to say that so far we have had over £80 donated by people that have approached us. 

This could have been due to the flags that we are flying from the Black Pig along with the Help for Heroes signs.  It could be the fact that we have been proudly wearing our luminous cycle shirts with Help for Heroes on (today we have the bright green ones on the ones where Stephen christened us Shrek and Fiona).  It could have been the fact that people would have seen us struggling up the hills, - or it could have been a combination of the 3.  Either way the people have been great.

We got back to Mick and Shaz's all hapy and content with ourselves knowing that we have now done 314 miles, tackled some big hills and had the benefit of a day off in front of us.