London To Cumbria Charity Ride - 380 miles in 3 days

Any lasting after-effects (apart from the smug sense of achievement which is obviously deserved) or have you both fully recovered now?

For me, the after effect is a numb feet, methinks a poor choice of footwear as I think my shoes were a tad too narrow (Mavic MTB) despite the cleat being in the right position, so ordered a Sidi Dominator Mega to see how that feel.

I'm riding to Dunwich and back this weekend, I'm at the point where I can't stay still, even if the saddle plagued me during the whole ride.

As far as I know, Dan's feeling perfectly fine, minus his ankle which he need rested, otherwise he'd be doing the DD as well.

Funny thing is, we don't really feel that achievement, we done it, we actually covered over 600km across England, it was hard, was challenging, but at the same time, looking back, it feel achievable, in a manner that anyone can do it if they put their mind to it, everyone keep telling us how impressed our ride was, how it look impossible, how they couldn't do such mileage, etc.

But in retrospect, it's just everyone never realised their potential, in our modern society we're constantly putting ourselves down, constantly telling everyone that we can't do this or that without a motorised vehicles, constantly being told we need to have certain materials in order to be safe, being told that the world is too dangerous for human.

But in the end, human are capable of so much more, that summed up the ride for me.

This come to mind actually;

Awesome write up, ed, sprinkled brilliantly with that unique ed magic - the scoblism.

I'm glad to hear that my misaligned grammar doesn't deterred an aspiring author to read my entry, I recall you lived in Leeds which is over half a century away from our ride, would have been great to ride with you.

Dan is thinking of doing London to Glasgow, and I'm tempted, so will let you know about that.