It was a fond farewell to richard jacklin after two days of support driving - van totally in tact and he just about managed to stay visible throughout his two day stint. A warm welcome to Michael Hughes - craig's sister's partner for the trip from Carl isle to Stirling.Well, the weather forecast proved to be spot on again - more bad weather. The day didn't start of too great. Despite being hungry - we were not doing breakfast this morning at the Premier Inn Carlisle. Undeterred, the group took off for breakfast in Gretna - the first town in Scotland. As we left the clouds just opened up as forecast and the sight of Gretna about 18 miles up the road was a welcome sight.
Sadly the local hotel doing all day meals decided that this did not include breakfast for a group of wet and hungry cyclists. Just at this point we had out first accident of the day - the van got a bit smaller as Michael pulled it out of the car park.
The bacon rolls at the local BP perked the group up and we set off in to the rain with full bellies. Nigel was, however, not on his best form as we pulled out if the BP and came off the bike at the roundabout - 2 accidents and it was not even 9.00am
The next 3 hours were just horrendous - heavy rain all the way to Abinnton services followed by a good 20 mins for all under the hand dryer. Fortunately the weather improved in the afternoon and we met Craig's mum and dad with a huge bag of tunnocks offerings in Lanarkshire followed by a slog up to Stirling to finish 7.00pm - 11 and a half hours after we left Carlisle.
Tomorrow - Stirling to Braemar - 107 miles
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