Ok,

Only a couple of days into planning and changes already,

It now looks as if setting off on July 16th would be better,
That way I can get a lift to Lands End on the Saturday and start riding on the Sunday morning.
Then at the planned end of the ride I can travel to my annual holiday in Anglesey for a couple of weeks and relax before going back to work.

To start the ride after my holiday would be good as I would be able to get a few weeks extra practice riding Anglesey's hills, which would be excellent training, but would probably spoil my holiday.

So now the plan is to leave home on 16th July, start the ride on the morning of Sunday 17th and ride for 12 days.

I hope to be able to stop at home on night 4 (in Manchester) so that means I have to average 80 miles a day for the first 4 days, which is approx right for the whole trip.

I've been looking for the least hilly route but there don't seem to be many!

I think most of the middle of the country can be done on canal tow paths, but from experience I don't know if I can keep up a decent average speed to make it worth the lack of traffic compared to the speed of roads.

I have lots of time to try things out!!

Just need to sort some trial routes and practice/training rides


Axe.....