Long Way Downhill

A cycle ride from John O' Groats to Lands End in memory of my brother, Sqn Ldr Anthony Downing.

Wednesday, 26 September 2012

Day 12 Bodmin to Land's End Part Two

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Awake at seven and listening to the cars splashing through the puddles outside. Roll over and go back to sleep, we've only 58 miles to d...
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Day 12 Bodmin to Land's End

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Well we made it after 880ish miles and 11 days of cycling, and in no small part thanks to the help and encouragement you have all supplied. ...
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Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Day 11 Taunton to Bodmin

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Waking up in another decent bed was followed by Chris unexpectedly knocking on the door with a cup of tea. Sadly that was the highlight of ...
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Monday, 24 September 2012

Day 10 Monmouth to Taunton

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Waking up at 7am was met with mixed emotions. Happiness at being in a very large comfy bed, and disappointment at hearing the rain beating a...
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Sunday, 23 September 2012

Day 9 Shrewsbury to Monmouth

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An early start and a nice enough breakfast saw us leaving Shrewsbury in the frigid air at half eight, the roads pleasantly quiet. We realis...
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Saturday, 22 September 2012

Day 8 Leyland to Shrewsbury

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After a very good nights kip in Richard and Leah's home we were treated to a full breakfast by Richard. I know I've said this befor...
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Friday, 21 September 2012

Day 7 Carlisle to Leyland

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A seven o clock wake up in the travelodge led to a Subway breakfast and us on the road at 9 o'clock.  Nothing to do with me faffing a...
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Thursday, 20 September 2012

A little video link, cycling is fun!

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Taken from the long downhill stretch from Drumochre towards Perth. Not often you can film at 30mph on an A road... A little video
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Day 6 Moffat to Carlisle

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Another fine breakfast provided by Paul & Lesley started our day, and outside the rain had slackened off giving us a false sense of hop...
Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Day 5 Kinross to Moffat

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Another early morning but this time accompanied by frost on the ground. Pat from the Pascaig B&B made a delicious breakfast including...
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Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Day 4 Aviemore to Kinross

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Today started badly but has gotten significantly better than I could have hoped for. What a difference a few hours can bring... We got up e...
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Monday, 17 September 2012

Day 3 Aviemore to... Aviemore

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Well that didn't go quite to plan. After a few shandies last night we got our heads down in the Aviemore Bunkhouse and despite one ...
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Sunday, 16 September 2012

Day 2 Tain to Aviemore

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After an early night we were presented with a full fried breakfast by Mollie which disappeared within seconds. Seems that cycling 90 miles...
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Saturday, 15 September 2012

Day 1 John O' Groats to Tain

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After a good nights kip at the Broo B&B in JoG we checked over the bikes again to see if our knackered state last night had led to an...
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Friday, 14 September 2012

T Minus 11 Hours

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After fourteen hours of travelling involving one car, two planes, one train and a pair if buses (excusing two visits to a Weatherspoons) we...
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Thursday, 13 September 2012

T Minus a day and a bit...

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Rightyo ho, it's a wee bit late but the flyers are here. Hope you like them and if you are in a printer abusing mode you can reprint one...
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T Minus 2 Days

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I've just had an email from Google telling me this blog has been suspected of being a spam site. That means it might be blocked for a fe...
Wednesday, 12 September 2012

T Minus 3 Days

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First and foremost may I please say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has donated. I picked the target of £874 purely as that was the ap...
Tuesday, 11 September 2012

T Minus 4 Days

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Today was my last training ride, the next time I'll be doing more than a pop to the shops on two unpowered wheels is when I'm standi...
Monday, 10 September 2012

T Minus 5 Days

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There has been progress on the publicity front today as I have spoken to a journalist about getting a news item put into the Plymouth Herald...
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Cycling JoG to Lands End in memory of my brother and Motorcycling Lands End to JoG for Cancer research on the LDU.
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