first “warm shower!”

amazing! I landed up after a good ride in countryside from Lioncoln, through its shire (2 short “A” junctions, tough!) ; in Daniel’s Martin place, a completly crazy adventurer, I mean a genuine one, that have an idea and then just go for it… after having ridden his bike from London to cape town in south Africa on the east coast, he rode it again to Cape town, but from Seoul, Korea! and on the west coast of Africa! obviously the next trip is a lot more than this “warm up”… he aims to Swimm from New York across the Atlantic to Brest, France, then cycle the whole thing to easter Siberia to cross over to Alaska on the Bering straight, and from there to run to New York… interesting triathlon, isn’t it?

so I had the chance to spent an evening with him and be the ‘assisant’ for the slide during his talk to a village society, good fun..  after a short night (very short) I set off almost early to leave the area, but stayed longer to chat and manage to leave at about 11 towards Cambridge, stopped on the way at a country pub; couldn’t not-to-stop in Cambridge as a tourist.., and then it was late in the afternoon, and still had about 100km to go to Harwich… at that time I thought it was OK, but it happens to rain in England… even Heavy rain! or hail! so riding under these condtions definitely make is slower… I finaly had a sky clear up and a last feast in an other countrypub, and hit to road as fast as I could afterwards for the last hour of daylight… at half 10, it was to dark, I did complet about 145km, and still have 30… so stop in a wet field, for a cold and short night…

From Lincoln to Peterborough.. to find: Daniel Martin!

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