It's been a hard slog (for me) but still, somehow it seems to have 'flown by'.
We set off in a somewhat buoyant mood heading up a re-routed course to Helmsdale.
The most welcomed signpost of the entire 13 days so far, was our first sighting of JOG on a green background!!
#lookslikeimpregnantthere!
Onwards through the cold morning Scottish mist and we arrived at our first stop - 'Cornerstone Coffee' shop'.
Great coffee, homemade shortbread and they kindly donated !! - only problem for Gospel Gary was - it was a Christia CoffeeShop - he was a mute for 30mins!!
Our next scheduled stop was then the Glenmorangie Whiskey Distillery:-
I'm not a lover of Whiskey (which is a good thing when you still have 30 miles to cycle !), but it broke the day up nicely. Plus they donated a bottle of their finest for our raffle!!
The weather, again, has been very kind to us in Scotland so the run into Helmsdale was dry.
However this afternoon, cycling (plodding) up the coastline we were met by a viscous wind. And NO, I don't mean Ade ! I mean the cross wind that greeted us on our final 20 miles in! On a bust A road as well, it was a tad tricky today.
All that aside - all I was thinking about was, get today out of the way and then tomorrow is all that's left ;)
We ate well at our last minute-arranged digs and the mood retiring to beds (mine was double tonight too - jackpot) was an upbeat one !
Well that's nearly it - I'm lying here on the night of the 13th day (no-one snoring, yet). My legs, I cannot feel no more. Whilst my head is full of varied thoughts - I'm knackered, I hate cycling (even more than I did before), my kit stinks, I'm fed up of applying butt cream, my backside is still raw and I haven't had a lie-on for weeks !
BUT !!! - I've somehow successfully negotiated 13 days in the saddle whilst lubed up and overdosed on Mars Bars.
We were 10 unique personalities and offered 10 different avenues for raising awareness. We've smashed the £9k on JG site, we reached out to a shed load of people on our crazy journey and we've managed to raise the profile of MND. Wasn't that the objective !?!
When all of us wake up tomorrow and 'clip-in' - we'll know we're a few hours away from reaching our objective - and that will be a great feeling.
I just got one more cycle ride (ever!) to get through............
However tough the ride/weather is tomorrow - I promise you all, I'll be smiling.
Don't forget to join the #MNDIceBucketChallenge and donate to MND !!!!!!! We're planning on doing ours at JOG tomorrow too.
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