Fri 12th – Day 3 The wind howled all night. In the morning it revealed grey blustery skies but thankfully no rain. I had checked the weather report and decided that I would press on. The weather said the wind was dying out and the weather was going to improve over the next day.
I set off late morning and had replanned my route yet again. Since the bridleways were all waterlogged I decided to stick to an onroad cycling route to get to Richmond in the Yorkshire dales 70km’s away.
The wind was still quite blustery and I was blown up the scary A685 past Kirkby Stephen, along English country lanes and into the Yorkshire Dales national park.
The wind still made the conditions very cold, but I was keeping up an impressive average speed as I followed the twisting ribbon road through the beautiful and stark treeless moorlands of the dales.
The scenary would have been so much more beautiful if I wasn’t so cold. But the sun did come out in the afternoon and I did brave an off road excursion into Richmond which turned out to be a little gem of a bridetrack. After that it was a quick 5 mile ride through rush hour Richmond and down to the Brompton on Swale camping barn which turned out to be a gem of place, with a hot shower and tea on arrival from the owner.
Daily Stats
Distance : 73km
Elevation gain : ???
Elevation loss : ???
Max Elevation : 600m
Min Elevation : 90m
Start Time : 11:10 AM
End Time : 4:10 PM
Total Time : 05:00
Riding Time : 03:45
Average speed : 19.2km/ph
Max speed : 77km/ph
Notes : Crossed yorkshire dales. 1k extra
77kmph - that's over 45mph!! Did you fix your speedo??! Was that coming down a 33% hill?
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