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Oliver Schick
@ric_a5
Did a bit of an adapted version of The Way to the Sea on Saturday for month 10 of my fixed RRTY attempt and it was probably the worst ride I've ever had. Every bit I adapted from the original route was horrific. Including a bit that turned out to be a closed, gated farm road that I couldn't get through so had to re-route an extra few KMs to get round that, hopefully this wont screw up my submission. I didn't expect it to be anywhere near as hot as it was. Was buying water at every opportunity on the way around and sweated all of that out only needing to wee once in the 12 hours I was out and completely burnt every part of my pasty skin that was on show. Got a nosebleed at one point which just dripped away for about 20 minutes. Felt sick anytime I tried to eat anything so after my sandwiches at lunch I could only eat half a banana and half a flapjack for the last ~100km. Then one contact lense fell out about 2/3rds through so on top of my heat headache I also got blurred vision headaches. Got round it though which I didn't expect when I was feeling like death half way through.