Arrived! 6.38pm after 95 miles split between the wind and rain against up to Bettyhill for lunch, followed by the wind with us on the 55 mile ride into John O’Groats.
All Pat’s family greeted us with Pats brother Des and partner Ber making a surprise appearance coming over from Ireland on a motorbike. The Murphy’s and malt whisky from a massive selection in the hotel bar went down well.
Thanks to all friends, families and colleagues for your fantastc support. It’s been a great help in getting us through an incredible experience not to be repeated!
Paddy irrespective of what we said at the hotel, we’ve had a meeting at the airport and we will see you again!
For someone who is 61 soon to be 62 your fitness level and ability to keep going is obscene
Two key stats for now, 950 miles, short of the thousand due to changes in routes on a day by day basis.
Total vertical climbt for the whole trip over 57000ft, equivalent to riding a bike up into the stratosphere.
Over 80 hours in the saddle and 77000calories burnt, close to the 466 equivalent Crème eggs
To Ian & Gang. You’re all wonderful, fantastic, brilliant etc etc etc - say no more! Well done and congratulations. Let the celebrations commence! Julie, Tom, Katie & Rachel xxxx
Well, we never doubted that you would all acheive it, but it is an amazing feat and we all stand it awe of you all!
The blog has been brilliant-could it be continued with a daily update of the Bennett household-on second thoughts perhaps not!
Well done to you all, be very proud of your achievement and the drinks are on us!
Siobainx
Great stuff Ian - well done to you all.
This was clearly far too tough to be done by rational human beings - so fortunately that counts me out from attempting to follow in your wheel tracks.
See you shortly - I’ll buy you a creme egg seeing as you are a bit short of your replacement target.
Well done guys!! What a fantastic achievement. You should all be very proud of yourselves. Really enjoyed reading the blog.