Category: Land’s End to John o’ Groats
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Lejog pictures and places: Day 4
Wednesday, June 19 Day 4 saw us at a rather slow start as we spent time sponging clay off the bikes from the previous day’s failed detour. But the skies, although grey, did not threaten rain, and we were on the road with sandwiches in our pockets earlier than we had left Hatherleigh the day…
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Lejog pictures and places: Day 3
Tuesday, June 18 First thing in the morning, we discovered that FLJ’s bike again had a flat. This was the same tire we’d fixed the evening before on the road. I soon discovered the probable cause of the repeat flat: the tire wasn’t seated properly on the rim, which would have made for another pinch…
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Lejog pictures and places: Day 2
Monday, June 17 The second day brought us a fresh start and — after a bit of excitement on the A30 again out of Three Burrows — our first of several flats. Retyn, Newquay While I was fixing the flat, a gent about our age — but far fitter — whizzed past us in the…
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Lejog pictures and places: Day 1
Sunday, June 16 The first bit of riding was actually in London, about 10km from our bunk at the house of FLJ’s sister to Paddington Station, starting out at 7:20 a.m. Paddington Station At Paddington we loaded the bikes on a train bound for Penzance. And it got us there … eventually. Land’s End After…
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Lejog pictures and places
Our Land’s End to John o’ Groats ride in June 2019 was a two-week adventure (well, eight days for me) that took some time to digest. Back in December I spent some time with Google Maps pinning down some of the locations of photos — as well as some happenings that we didn’t have photos…
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On climbs and their (relative) steepness
Regarding this post about a steepish climb in my near future, the following conversation took place. Fearless Leader Joe: You can handle that. It looks vertical on a map, but for 20m I bet that horrible one in Devon was worse – the one that I said as we were freewheeling down, “thank goodness we’re…
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That’s a lotta bull
Fearless Leader Joe and I crossed a lot of cattle guards as we made our way across England. Each time we did, I was curious why — were we riding into a grazing area? I had a few seconds to contemplate this each time because FLJ would usually dismount to cross the guards. (I just…
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Stunning effort on Lejog
A stunning effort by Christina Mackenzie as she completes Land’s End to John o’Groats in 2 days, 7 hours. Shy of the record by a smidge, but an amazing ride. It’s all done congratulations 2days 7hrs 19mins & 52secs @christina_mack what an effort you’ve kept us all going in recent days #thankyou #LeJog2018 ??♀️?????????? pic.twitter.com/M7wHYD48Y9…
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Assault on women’s Lejog record
Christina Mackenzie is attempting to break the women’s Lands End to John O’Groats record even as we speak (well, even as I write this post). The current women’s record was set in 2001 by Lynne Taylor at 52h 45m. Much depends in this record on the weather, and it looks like it’s been favorable for…