514.7 miles covered since leaving Land's End on Tuesday, and also halfway through in terms of days left. Tomorrow we pass Gretna Green and enter Scotland. Hopefully the ride to Kilmarnock will not be too hilly. At least the weather is looking to be better. Today started with the rim of Steves rear wheel blowing. Worn and pumped too high the cause. This delayed our start. (Steve is a fellow end to ender in a photo below - sorry about my expression in it). Bernie another E2E and experienced racer also hung around, while Steves wheel was sorted. Even with Bernie not appearing to try too hard he set a fast pace. Just before the first water stop it started to rain, and shortly after met Ian with a flat. Stopping to help, Steve picked up the first 3 punctures for the day. By Kendal the heavy rain had stopped, ready for the climb up Ribs Fell. The climb was okay once you got into a comfortable gear . The problem was the desire to stop on each bend to look and photo the landscape. Once at the top the clear weather was replaced with cold driving rain. The downhill to lunch was not pleasant. I was hoping to free wheel, but instead had to pedal all the way :( From Shap the route was to Penrith where the sun finally appeared and remained all the way to Carlisle.
Day 6 photos When the weather was good lots of great scenery from Kendal to Penrith . Could have taken a lot more photos but would never got up Shap!
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