5 miles in and already encountering blown down foliage!!

The heavy wind and rain over the previous couple of days we found had strewn bits of trees and other rubbish over the route and even in places trees themselves. Our worst nightmare had also happened. Rain we could cope with - but we were peddling against a strong North Easterly head wind which we felt at times was trying to blow us back to Whitehaven. (Feeling sorry for us yet?) It made what should have been easy riding much harder and slowed us down considerably. We realised quite quickly there was no way we would be able to complete the ride in 2 days and that therefore I would be going it alone for the some of the way as Colin and Wendy had to be home for work by Sunday evening.