Day 4

Day 4
Miles covered - 75.8
Total miles covered - 345
Hours in the saddle - 5.5
Moment we'd rather forget- running around the fields in welsh bicknor looking for a mythical bridge
Best moment - Matts aunties spag bol, the lack of major hiccups, nick forrest forgetting his sleeping bag, towel, stealing grums and having to use a yha sheet to dry himself.

1030 am and we've covered about 4 miles into ross on wye. After three spokes on nicks bike broke late last night getting to a bike shop was top of the list this morning. However in finding our hostel last night we probably added 5 miles by going the long way round when we could have crossed the river in the valley much earlier in the evening. So as usual mad rush to try and get food before everywhere closed. Lucked out again with beautiful dinner in the hostelrie in welsh bicknor. Stayed in pub too long just sitting and then had to take the mile down a pitch black road to the hostel which bruce and nick had to walk in the end because it was so dark and uneven. When we arrived the guy told us the bridge was about 200 yards away and the next morning it still took us an hour to find. Beyond this it was pretty much plain sailing apart from fraz's flying water bottle almost taking me matt and a car out as we flew down a hill at at least 30mph. We also climbed ironbridge gorge which was unexpected and not particualrly nice at the end of the day. Calorie consumption reached an all time high on day 4 this is what I ate.

2 ginster chicken slices.
2 weetabix
Full fry up including 2 toast
1 Croissant
1 apple
1 banana
3 nutri grains
An enormous bowl of spaghetti bolognese- twice my usual portion
3 slices of pizza
2 packs of space raiders
1 pack of squares.

No idea how many calories this is...