Day 9 - trekking in various senses of the word.

Today was the 101th (stet) Reeth Agricultural Show. After hearing about the death threats regarding the entries for the ginger bread competition, it sounded like it was going to be a proper village affair. We're sad not to have got a chance to go along. We said goodbye to Elizabeth, John & Anne.

My foot is super sore, so I decided to take a slight deviation in an attempt to give it a bit of light relief. The friendly people at the Dale Bike Centre rented me a mountain bike so that I could cycle to Richmond, where they will kindly pick it up tomorrow. Urs & Tim took on the power walk challenge and completed the 10 mile section of the walk in 4 hours.

My cycle route, was by no mean easy, I can see why the Tour de France are thinking of setting a stage here next year. I attempted to cycle up a hill that had three gradient chevrons on the map!! Needless to say at two points I had to get off and push. I headed off road across some bridle paths for the full experience. I met Tim & Urs along the route and we then had a race to see who could get to the Buck Hotel first... 

The winners were Tim & Urs, as I sneaked off to Mountain Warehouse for some emergency walking provisions. We're looking forward to exploring the bright lights of Richmond this evening before Tim leaves us and it's back to just Urs & I for a few sections.