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The morning started with another big breakfast accompanied by some classical music, lovely.
Anyway, we set off for the second 100 mile day in a row and it wasn't long before it was lashing it down, cold and unpleasant!
After a already tough hilly 40 miles we ended up on a very rough dirt track, looked ok to start with but a couple of miles in it turned into a flooded bog, see pics, it was barely walkable never-mind ridable, but a hr or so later we had covered about half a mile but were out the other side undefeated!
That little adventure meant we were well ready for lunch and particularly a sugar hit, at the local truck stop the 4 of us with put a serious hole on their cake shelf.
We left at 3.30pm still with 50 miles to do in pouring rain, errr!
The afternoon turned out better than planned, quite flat and the weather even brightened up! However real concern started to build for Joe who has been struggling with his knee for the last few days, but today he is in a lot of pain!
Through another long afternoon, conversation turned to animals and which would we be if we could. I think we all settled on a cat, but domestic not a farm cat, as they are expected to chase rats and that we guessed would be quite hard work.
A quick morrisons stop for chilli supplies and it was into the final 20 miles of the day!
We arrived at Hillside Farm about 8pm following a spectacular welcoming committed of cows, odd, felt like we were on cow safari, see pic.
We knocked up an outstanding Chilli to complete another big day of 100 miles. In 9.5 hrs of riding, despite Cumbria throwing everything it had at us!
However, the day is massively overshadowed by injury concerns, Joe's knee didn't improve through the afternoon and it looks like today may have been his last day. So gutted for him but also for the group, Joe has been top class and losing him will be a big hit on moral!
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Pie No way!! No chance of a miraculous recovery for Joe??... Gutted for Joe and all of you if not...
karen warburton awwwwww poor joe :-) come on your boys.... not far to go now!!! xxxxx