Had a great ride yesterday – 67 miles and felt very good, so getting more and more confident I can do the miles I need to do each day.

I used auto routing when planning my route yesterday on bikeroutetoaster – and it took me through a churned up track, a field (we did have right of way) and some downhill track with big pot holes and the odd little stream running across it. It did say at the beginning turn right onto an unpaved road, but this was no unpaved road!

With bikeroutetoaster you can get  a satellite view of the route as well as a conventional map. I’ve decided to switch to that view if I’m in doubt about the road surface. It was fun yesterday - the sun was shining and it was very picturesque, but it would be annoying if I was tired or the weather was bad.

Now plotted the first three days ready for my bike sat nav. I’m using a mixture of auto routing and following the CTC’s Lands End to John O’Groats information pack, although, of course, I’m doing it in reverse. This seems to work well, but the real test is when I do it.

Here is an example of one of the routes – day 2 Altnaharra to North Kessock