Yes, we finally completed our self set task by all successfully completing the BUPA Great Capital 10k run in Hyde park yesterday. Despite a full set of achilles, ankle and knee problems we all somehow actually managed to run it, and all in quite respectable times too…. quite amazing really.
Pictorial proof will follow shortly, which I’ll leave up to David’s technical wizardry.

For the record, we set off from John o’Groats at 6am on Sunday 6th July and reached our destination at land’s End at 11:28 on Wednesday 16th. 10 days, 5 hours 28 mins later. A grand total of 1017.88 miles, 87 hours of actual cycling and an average moving speed of 11.7mph. Way too many hills to accurately recall……

Highest point reached was Shap summit, a smidgeon over 1400 ft. Lowest point, possibly Ian’s 8th puncture, in the rain, somewhere around Dumfries!

Fastest speed achieved collectively, 35 mph, on the downhill approach to Milton, near Drumnadrochit and Castle Urqhart on the north side of Loch Ness. Would have been a lot quicker if the gps wasn’t on my bike and I’m a bit of a coward when it comes to hurtling down hills, with S bends, in the rain, on skinny tyres, with half a hundredweight on the back. I recall descending all the way down from Shap summit with my brakes hard on, spray everywhere, and still doing about 30… Ian may well have been faster down some descents.
I did record 40.6 briefly on a madcap late night dash to Heads of Ayr campsite, in total darkness, but thats another story.

Lowest speed…… lots of 5mph’s up lots of hills!

I’m now hobbling around like the geriatric old man I’m fast becoming (the run has finished off my achilles tendon properly), but was it worth it?. Of course it was!