Trained for 4 weeks.
Bought new wheels, bike finally actually working good.
Set off at 2.30pm Fri from Loughborough for Plymouth, ETA 6.30pm
Made it to the junction past Strensham services on the M5 at 10.30pm.
8 hrs to do a journey of 1hr.
Reversed up the hard shoulder to get off the exit.
Headed to Tewkesbury to buy get some food.
Tewskesbury was underwater, but tried 2 pubs on the road in. Both were like refugee camps. No Food.
Found a wild bean cafe/m&s/little theif. Happy days. Well, it would have been had they not been shut for refurbishment.
Decided to stay in lemmo.
Had to head to Cheltenham tho as any roads to lemmo were blocked with traffic.
Took another 4.5hrs to get to Lem.
12.5hrs in car, 159miles in total.
Up at 8am to check news, M5 still shut, so no chance of making Plymouth.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr