Day 7 done

I was nervous about today's ride as on paper it's the toughest of the whole trip. First I had to get out of Edinburgh. The sat nav didn't do well yesterday. At one point it took me into an Asda carpark. My brain has obviously slowed down because it took me a while to realise. Then an embarrassed u turn. Last night I asked the recetionist at the hotel. She was brilliant. Found me a much simpler route out of the city and photocopied the route sheet for me to take with me. It worked really well and I got put of the city much quicker than I anticipated. The promised rain materialised. First a prolonged shower and then a real downpour with divulged of rain running down the roads and lots of cars spraying water off the road

In spite of my wet weather hear I ended up very cold and wet on spite of wearing five layers of tops. The wind was strong and often in my face. Eventually it stoped raining but I only finally took one layer off about fifteen miles from my destination.

The scenery for the last 44 miles to Langhalm was stunning. I was on a b road so there wasn't much other traffic.

It was a hard day but not as jars as I'd anticipated. But the hills rain and climbing did make it tough. In the end I cycled 75 miles.

I'm using about 4500 calories a day but finding it difficult to eat that much each day so losing some weight.

Now eating And then an early nightat another comfortable B & B.