Since finishing the ride three key things have happened that bring all the kindness and generosity I was shown during the ride flooding back, as well as the emotion.
1) An unsolicited very generous donation from my physio.
2) The offer of a beautiful holiday cottage for a week to auction to raise more funds for the charity.
3) Pierre and Maureen the Scots living in Canada who I met on the ferry from Gourock to Dunnoon have made a generous donation via Just Giving now they have got back to Canada.
They and so many others have shown me the basic goodness in the majority of people, we need to celebrate this more, rather than the negative side of modern life that is often portrayed. So ends the sermon for today.
Wednesday 9 June 2010
Sunday 6 June 2010
Final thoughts...
Been looking at the final stats for the whole 10 day trip and they make very interesting reading.
Total distance 1029 miles
Time taken 66 hours 7 minutes
Average speed 15.8 mph
Total ascent 53,562 ft
Total kcals burnt while riding 58,045
Here are some comparisons -
Mount Everest is 29,035 ft above sea level, so I climbed it 1.8 times over the 10 days.
Ben Nevis is 4,409 ft above sea level, so I climbed it 12 times, more than once every day.
Mount Snowdon is 3,560 ft above sea level, so I climbed it 15 times, 1.5 times a day.
Scafell is 3,209 ft above sea level, so i climbed it nearly 17 times, 1.7 times per day.
These are the three highest peaks in Scotland, Wales and England and the total for the three would be 11,178 ft, so I climbed the combined height nearly 5 times.
Where would 1,000 miles get me from home in Liverpool?
Trondheim in Norway
Uppsala in Sweden
Warsaw or Krakow in Poland
Budapest, Murcia, Rome or Lisbon to name but a few more. It makes you think, all I did was ride from one end of our country to the other and we live in a fairly small country.
Alternatively, the 1,000 miles would have got me 1/3rd of the way across America coast to coast. Now there's a ride....
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