The final stretch began in dull weather with Matt cycling the first 70 miles over hilly terrain. With reasonably high winds, the going was tough. Meanwhile, the support team had packed up camp and driven off to the meeting point at truro. At the meeting point, we were joined by Alistair’s parents and Matt’s mum who had driven down to see us finish. At this point, both Alistair and Jonathan joined Matt to cycle the last 50 miles.

The weather took a turn for the worst during the last 50 miles, with heavy fog and some rain. The family members followed us down for the last 10 miles, offering supporting cheers. The last 10 miles were cycled in record pace but in pain, with Matt & Alistair having to favour one leg (due to bad muscle pain for Matt and the knee injury for Alistair). We crossed the finish line at Land’s End at around 8pm, with Matt having cycled the entire way.

After much celebrating and discussing the events of the past week, we all went for a celebratory curry! More information about the trip in general will be posted soon!

After a good nights sleep the two cyclists were in high spirits and ready to hit the road hard, sadly after around 10 miles Jonathan was forced to pull out of cycling the leg to Exeter. He was experiencing pain behind the knee, and following Alistair’s event-ending knee problem, it was agree that resting the limb until the final day would be the most sensible course of action.

Matt then pushed back onto the road and into the wind, whilst making good time to the outskirts of Bristol (around 30 miles from camp). At this point things were looking good for a comfortable day, but then Matt made the error of trying to navigate through the city. Not Wise ! Despite the supposedly simple route of just following the same road as he had been, confusion in unfamiliar territory led him to lose large amounts of time, checking and re-checking his position, and in the end it took around 1.5 hrs to travel 10 miles. Once back on the open road he made reasonable time to get to the old faithful Tesco Car Park at Weston-Super-Mare.

He then made good time travelling the 65 remaining miles to Exeter, despite adverse wind conditions. The campsite was one of the nicest we had stayed at having a top notch shower block, generous pitches and even a games room (cheer). One day to go !