on cycling 50 miles in a week
50 miles in a week isn’t much of a cycling achievement.
Most cyclists are training for 100 miles in one go.
The easiest way to avoid mistakes whilst blogging is to not post anything, but that’s also a mistake.
I hit publish on bad at blogging and don’t follow me to acknowledge the gap in content and give myself permission to make more blogging mistakes.
bad at blogging
- blogs are meant to be written in paragraphs
- but I write my notes as lists
- I like lists
- but I write my notes as lists
Hiked the West Highland Way.
96 miles from Milngavie to Fort William.
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Rested, showered and caffeinated.
Ready for day 7.
25km to Fort William.
Made it to Kinlochleven.
Should have eaten more than just Skittles and Scottish Tablet for lunch.
Tired.
Day 6 involves breakfast at Glencoe mountain resort, Kingshouse Inn, and dealing with a low phone battery.
Misty mountain wild camp.
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Day 5 and I’d hoped for a massive day, doing 2 stages in one go to bring the total down from 8 days to 7, but I’ve woken up feeling a bit run down.
Hoping the walking fixes it, instead of making it worse.
Day summaries have been postponed until after the trip. They take too long to write on a phone and I have walking to do.
Haggis, Neeps and Tatties at the Tyndrum Inn.
Even later start to day 4 but I treated myself to a full Scottish breakfast.
19km today. Apparently days 2 and 3 are the toughest walking sections so I should be a bit faster today.
Made it to Beinglas in time for dinner.
Loch Lomond
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You’re not allowed to camp at this perfect little camp spot and then sit on the perfectly located bench beside it because it’s on this side of the sign.
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Breakfast banana from Bocsa Bean in Rowardennan.
And a coffee of course.
I was impressed that the whole trailer’s powered by the electric car parked next to it and only uses 2% of the battery.
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Today’s just as long as yesterday and yet I’m setting off an hour later 🥴
Should still make it before sunset.