Day 10

Day 10
Miles covered - 75
Total miles covered - 875
Highs - views over loch ness, a few substantial downhills, bonar bridge, carbisdale castle stories, the duke of sutherlands mental wife, nick forrest's dog hates him
Lows - 6 mile climb before you've warmed up, people cheating on a charity cycle, getting lost because grum and his navigation basket wernt with us. Meeting a girl in inverness who covered 120 miles yesterday to jog with more kit than us.

1st day without grum that we have had any real navigation to do. We could either take the northern route around loch ness which would save about 10 miles but we were strongly advised to take the empty but hilly southern route. After half a mile of the day we started a steep climb, 5 miles later we were still climbing with no end in sight! Legs woefully unwarmed up made it a very unwelcome suprise. At 400 metres high the peak was the same height shap. Anyway spectacular views of the highlands and loch ness below us. As we stand there drenched in sweat up pull 3 vans and all these bikes start being unloaded. Apparently a charity cycle ride from fort augustus to inverness is occurring, we politely point out that they are cheating as they zoom off down the hill, possibly all the way to inverness without needing to pedal. Oh and then we missed a turn and added another 5 miles.