LEJOG08

Sunday 4th May, Ian, Rob and I caught the 9am ferry over to Cowes. Good going after being out and about in Southampton till midnight for Chris Law's 30th.
This was Rob's first outing on his new Trek Madone, and after raising the seat about a foot, eating some overpriced rolls on the ferry, and registering we were off.

The route was mostly gentle rolling hills, with a few larger ones thrown in. We took it fairly steady as Rob hadn't been out too far on the new bike. Though Ian and I made an effort to push hard up the larger hills. It's pretty satisfying flying past dozens of panting cyclist on a long uphill drag, even if half were kids and OAPs.

We were all reasonably tired by the end, but a nice pint on the ferry back cured that.
Ride distance around 75 miles.

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