LEJOG Day 5 to Carlisle, Cumbria
After an average nights sleep I awoke to blue skies and sun blasting in the window. My digs were in the village of Slaidburn in Lancashire, near the border with North Yorkshire. - To any1 I could have been in the Village of Emmerdale, LOL.
Staring out the window I could see the bustling small shop with people coming and going, clearly the local focal point. The pub across the road well closed up, well it was 730am. -!
Got dressed and headed over and got some stuff for a breakfast of kings. Well - 2 rolls n bacon, 2 coffees a banana and orange juice. During this time I had a great chat with a guy called Paul, retired, just returned tpo the UK after 30 years in Canada. He was up to go on a Map reading course. - At age of 68. - Good on him. We exchanged stories of how we came to be here and he kindly cleaned up my dishes and helped me with the stuff to my bike and wished me luck on my journey..
As I left the village at 930am, straight into some hills. - And this was to be the them for the first 15 miles - Across the Çross of Greet'- I felt like greetin pullin a full pannier lol, but I was rewarded with some stunning views as I entered the village of Bentham. - At this point it has been nearly 2 hrs and I hadonly done 18 miles. - Today was going to be long as I knew I had the backbone of the Lake to get over.
Applying some fact 30 I plodded along until I got to Tebay, and the route featured some rolling farm roads and zig zagging under and over the M6. At 42 miles I stopped for some much needed food, and then left after re navigating the map to rejoin the course.
By this time I was on the A Kendal Brough road, which included some nice downhill runs. After which I joined the A6 up through SHAP and onto Penrith. I could smell the border. ;)
By this time it was around 430pm and the sun was blazing. Stopped for some water and made a couple of calls. - The last 24 miles to my digs, 5 miles west of Cumbria was as flat as a pancake and I really enjoyed whizzing through some very nice villages and along flat farm roads before reaching my digs at Hillside Farm facing out to the Solway firth at just before 7pm.
Distance 85.2m / 4861Ft Climbed
Total - 520.5m / 28,108ft
Staring out the window I could see the bustling small shop with people coming and going, clearly the local focal point. The pub across the road well closed up, well it was 730am. -!
Got dressed and headed over and got some stuff for a breakfast of kings. Well - 2 rolls n bacon, 2 coffees a banana and orange juice. During this time I had a great chat with a guy called Paul, retired, just returned tpo the UK after 30 years in Canada. He was up to go on a Map reading course. - At age of 68. - Good on him. We exchanged stories of how we came to be here and he kindly cleaned up my dishes and helped me with the stuff to my bike and wished me luck on my journey..
As I left the village at 930am, straight into some hills. - And this was to be the them for the first 15 miles - Across the Çross of Greet'- I felt like greetin pullin a full pannier lol, but I was rewarded with some stunning views as I entered the village of Bentham. - At this point it has been nearly 2 hrs and I hadonly done 18 miles. - Today was going to be long as I knew I had the backbone of the Lake to get over.
By this time I was on the A Kendal Brough road, which included some nice downhill runs. After which I joined the A6 up through SHAP and onto Penrith. I could smell the border. ;)
By this time it was around 430pm and the sun was blazing. Stopped for some water and made a couple of calls. - The last 24 miles to my digs, 5 miles west of Cumbria was as flat as a pancake and I really enjoyed whizzing through some very nice villages and along flat farm roads before reaching my digs at Hillside Farm facing out to the Solway firth at just before 7pm.
Distance 85.2m / 4861Ft Climbed
Total - 520.5m / 28,108ft
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