JOGLE Day 2 began with a game of ‘lost + found’ when Sarah inadvertantly misplaced our room key. All six of our JOGLE team searched around the hostel for over half an hour for the missing key but to no avail. Eventually we reached the point where we had to leave, and just as we were about to do so Sarah found the key …in her trouser pocket. Numpty! It would be difficult to match that for a start to…
We had arrived and enjoyed an enjoyable evening meal in John o’Groats the previous evening but now on JOGLE Day 1 the real cycling began. It was a cool grey and overcast morning as we headed down from the hotel to the start point. Ahead would like two weeks of cycling and over 900 miles. After the obligatory photo’s, there was no big fanfare (other than from Nic and Sarah), but soon we were on our way. We followed NCN Route 1 and…
Friday was the start of our big adventure. Today would be mainly spent sat in our crew van as we drove up to John o’Groats. We stopped mid morning for a coffee break at Southwaite services. Feeling a little more refreshed we continued on into Scotland. We stopped for lunch in a place called Auchterarder in a lovely cafe called Cafe Kisa. After lunch there was still a long way to go! We stopped for fuel and a quick coffee…
All being well this time next week we should be just arriving in John o’Groats in preparation for our JOGLE Grand Depart on the morning of Saturday 13th June. Ahead will be nearly 1000 miles of cycling. In the meantime we are busy making final preparations. There;s getting the bikes ready, arranging picking up the van, making our packing lists, purchasing some of the food in advance …and even getting in a few last minute training rides. Sadly our JOGLE cycling…
As you may be aware that whilst most of our posts are cycling related Sarah and I also like to do a bit of running too. We don’t publish too many posts since most of our running is fairly mundane – and its not easy to take photos when running! However we have a few events coming up throughout the year and thought you might be interested in our running schedule for 2015. Sunday 8th March – Trafford 10k This popular event is…
