Almost a 40 miler today!

Today (Sunday) was the perfect day for us to do 40 miles, but we were 2 short, according to our GPS - I reckon it went to sleep while we were in the pub!!

Originally we were going to do the Penzance to Zennor leg from the Phoenix Stroke Appeal ride, and then hop over the hill from Zennor back to Penzance. But this meant using the car to transport us and the tandem to Penzance, and with the fuel shortages it made more sense to do a different route and start from home.


So we cycled to Porthtowan from Stithians and then followed our route to Cubert via St Agnes and Perranporth, at all times keeping as close to the Coast as was feasibly possible. We had a nice lunch at the Smugglers Inn in Trevellas (killer hills around here!), albeit a little pricey.


We then came back home along the Newquay to Chiverton road - not a particularly safe route - many cars came far too close to us at high speed.  So I am glad we will be on very few A roads during the ride proper.

But apart from this, we had a good day out.  All hills were ridden, lots of other cyclists on the road giving us cheery waves, 36.6mph top speed down a hill somewhere and 38.56 miles on the clock.