Day 2: Tain - Newtonmore

Start Time 08.15

Finish Time 18:15

Actual Mileage 78.4 miles

Average Speed (12.8 mph)

Steve's stretches...

What a way to spend an Easter Sunday – on a nice bike (except Rhys) in the Scottish Highlands (hanging with lots of cows) cycling 34.9 miles less than yesterday (we thought we would treat ourselves….) and drinking a collective 20 lucozades between us!

The first 33 miles we covered in excellent time with no mishaps to our names and finishing the morning session with a 10 mile stretch down a dual carriageway in 25 minutes!! (the clever ones out there can work out our average speed during this stretch and be modestly impressed). We arrived into the 4^th biggest Scottish city of Inverness at 11am to buy up as many tyres as we could carry while watching Inverness football club train at their stadium. Then it started to cloud over so we set off to complete the rest of the mileage.

Harry Potter Train?

Cairngorn National Park

The next hour was ‘hell on earth’ climbing 300 metres altitude on a full stomach (think of the altitude sickness… ) But we made it and after that we had a very comfortable ride through the mountains passing some minimalist ski resorts, some snow capped peaks and quite a bit of road kill. To see us to the end of the day Ollie gained his second puncture, Rob had a fall, Steve almost got hit by a lorry, Rhys ate an Easter Egg and Joe acted as a wind shield with his wide loaded pannier bags.

Early Risers

Ollie Houston or a traffic sign?

‘What have you done today to make you feel proud’ moment of the day (kindly sponsored by Heather Small): Getting some bargains in Co-Op.