Bike Tour Training Day - Langho to Hebden Bridge
The bike tour is now in the Calendar for late May. Training has been underway over the course of the last month or so. The longest day of the bike tour will be day 1 and will see me travel from my home in Langho to Kendal in Cumbria. The route was laid out in a previous post, though there will be some minor alterations to it. After some flip flopping, I ended up deciding on avoiding the Lake District National Park on day 1 and go straight to Kendal, which sits just to the east of the park boundary. The plan was then to cross the boundary on day 2 and head for Windermere. But I quite like the idea of travelling from home to the Lake District in a single ride. I will probably still camp at Kendal, but I will veer just over the park boundary on route. On day 1 I will be riding between 70 and 75 miles. I've never ridden that distance before. The most I have done is around the 50 mark. The first time I did this was the summer of 2020 when the country was in lockdown and the bike provid