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Riding from
Hawkshead to Ambleside
Start
time 17.15pm
Kilometres
covered
15.7
Kilometres
covered from the start
15.7
Time taken
including pub pit-stops
01.34.09
After a long drive up from competing in the mbr
Big Welsh Wkd in S.Wales, Kidder & Chiefy arrive
in the Lakes at Hawkshead Y.H.A. they off load the
bikes & unpack their kit & sort their lives out.
Two pairs of very tired, stiff legs head off
around Esthwaite water to Sawrey & the first pub
pit-stop. On arriving at the pub they find it's
shut!, so it was no option but to big ring it down
to the ferry & get across to Windermere. The first
sight the pair were confronted with at Ambleside
Y.H.A. was hundreds of kids running around &
screaming..!! (Bollocks) Kidder &
Chiefy had the foresight to book a 2 bed dorm 'What
a blessing'.
After a shower it was time for tea, the restaurant
was all but empty apart from two little kids
running around annoying the pair. Kidder exerted
his authority & cleared the kids off. With tea
gobbled up it was off to Ambleside town for some
liquid refreshments. The pair arrived back at the
Y.H.A. at about 10.30pm, & made the long climb up
to the attic-room where they were sleeping. The
T.V. was switched on, only to find Big Brother, 'Bollocks
to that' time for some shut eye.
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Lakeland Loop
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Pictures by kind permission from
Bicyclemania.co.uk |
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The U.K.'s
Toughest
mtb Challenge
The Lakeland Loop
2005
Kidder's shrunken after the big Welsh Wkd Enduro
We are going over the mountains, somehow..? |
