The real training for America is finally underway! This week, Hal and Sam set out for the Lake District in search of some proper hills to ride up, and defiinitely found them. We got the train early Tuesday morning from Liverpool to Kendal, with the weather actually seeming to be OK at this stage...
This being the first time we'd actually done any cycling with all our camping gear, the logical thing to do was to find the highest mountain road in the Lakes, Kirkstone Pass, which is 1500 feet above sea level at the summit. While that doesn't sound huge, I can assure you that cycling from the bottom with 25kg of kit on the back of your bike makes it a bit harder!
Once down the other side and after lunch, the weather really turned bad- heavy rain and strong winds meant our stop at Ullswater was pretty brief, and by the time we got to Grasmere the prospect of cycling another pass to set up tents etc was not appealing in the slightest, so we checked into a b&b.
Luckily, Wednesday was a much better day weather-wise, and having got through as much of the breakfast as possible, we set off at around 9.30, aiming to make it the 90-odd miles back to Liverpool. Despite it being twice the distance of the day before, we both found this much easier (although admittedly there were hardly any mountains to go over...)
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