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So yesterday I left Scarborough for Houghton-le-Spring via Whitby, Guisborough, Middlesborough and Hartlepool. The cinder track out of Scarborough, the old Railway line to Whitby via Ravenscar, revealed the first surprise if the day, Robin Hoods Bay. Epic views around the cliffs over the N Sea in the bright morning sun. I fropped into Whitby for breakfast at Wetherspoons on the quayside and the set off for the climb onto the N Yorkshire moors. Tbh I got 2/3 of the way up and was knackered: surely my tyre pressures had dropped? So on a grassy corner of a junction I lay the bike down, then I lay down, and the next thing I know I'm woken from slumber by a voice shouting 'are you alright, excuse me!!!'. To the lady standing at her front door in her dressing gown I suppose I did look like an accident victim. I crossed the road to speak, we laughed, I filled my water bottle and set off again with a wave from the dressing gown lady at her front door. Odd scene! The moors were beautiful. I guess the combination of the previous day's relentless northerly headwind, ss, a huge breakfast and frankly a looooong incline did for me.
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