Today started off well, A fried breakfast (seeing a pattern here) and then headded out to the bike. The hotel had been very kind and put the bike in the cellar for me which was nice so i knew it was safe. Leaving Helmsdale i was straight into a hill... however this didn't feel tough at all. i focused on my cadance and this kept me powering up the hills nice and easily. Well i say easily... maybe that is the wrong word... After losing track of time looking at th...

Wow ok, what a day! we left the B&B in Thurso at arroubnd 8 after a fried breakfast... the breakfast of champions! we then loaded the bikes up and headded off to JOG. The Starting point greeted us with light rain... the kind of rain that doesn't make you wet just really really annoys you! We tried to get a photo at the historic signpost but sadly the chap that takes the photos was missing and he had taken the signs down too!!! that was a massive dissapoin...

The last stand.... Ok so that might be a little melodramatic but it is the last stand before the big sit... 8 hours a day in the saddle is going to be interesting!! We left Edinburgh this morning at arround 10:00 which was nice especially as i was up at 7:15!!! I guess the 7am alarm on my phone wasnt quite turned off but bacon butties x2 sure made up for that! The drive up was again... Interesting however that was for a completely different reason... As we hea...

I woke up this morning at about 07:15 after getting in at about 1am, although i had only had about 6 hours of broken sleep i was feeling strangely awake and excited to be heading off on my journey to John O' Groats. As is essential with any trip a last minute panic pack was in order so i ensured that i had all my clothes and techie bits :) We managed to leave the house after cramming the car full of kit and mounting the bikes on the back of the car at abou...

Ok so now time is ticking on and i thought really i should pop a quick post up to let everyone know my current route. So as promised below you can see where i am planning on going / stopping. This is basically subject to change depending on weather conditions and how tired i am but i'll be aiming to go as far as i can each day :)Given this isn't exact but should 1ST Sun JOG To Helmsdale 2nd Mon Helmsdale To Dingwall 3rd Tue Dingwall To Newtonmore 4th Wed Newt...