I set off at about 9am having said my goodbyes to Neil as he left on his bike for work. The Country lanes were winding and I got a good pace up despite a strong cross wind between Ramsey and Benwick that nearly took me off on several occasions. I took it easy in the morning to Peterborough stopping to take picture along the way whilst listening to Fern on Radio 1. It was 1pm before I reach Peterborough tough and I realised i was behind so no time to stop in the city, it was straight up the A15 having made a quick pit stop for provisions. I devoured these in the memorial gardens at Bourne where a group of girls asked me whether I was doing this for charity and if I had any spare t-shirts. Sadly I didn't, but I gave them a card so they could have a look at the website, which they got very excited about.
The road seemed long and I began to worry that I wasn't going to make Lincoln by night fall it was 25 miles to Sleaford and to be fair it was taking a while I left Bourne at 3.30pm 7 miles into this route with no idea how far Lincoln was. I raced and got to Sleaford at 5pm with 18 mile to Lincoln. I pushed on harder though I was getting more and more tired having already covered over 80 miles. Then the road started rising and falling and the strong cross winds started to worry me. Lorries rushed past from behind dragging me on and then from the front forcing me to grip for dear life but I survived, barely. My determination had payed off, the culmination was a 35mph fly down the hill into Lincoln and a 2mph ride up the hill to St. Giles where I was staying for the night. I had covered 105 miles today and I was beat.
Amy my host is going travelling in SE Asia next year like myself and we spoke for hours about places we are going and logistics. Here Gran cooked us a nice curry and after a couple of drinks we wandered in the rain to see the cathedral which is stunningly lit by night. We got drenched so a warm shower later, I headed off to bed.
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