Day 4 Blackpool - Holmfirth

A very urban day of riding and a tough day's navigation. Not a high mileage but the team needed to stick together to follow the sat nav as we routed out of Blackpool, through Preston, round the back of Bolton, across through Bury, Heywood, Middleton, Birch into Oldham and out into the hills at Saddleworth. We found a very good reception in Oldham, where cars stopped at junctions for us, kids cheered and clapped and overall a very warm welcome.

The team are tired, Mark Baker is suffering with both of his knees, Ric Short suffering with one knee and Jamie aching following his crash.

We made good time to Holmfirth, where we arrived to a familiar site, the place we stopped 4 years ago on the second tour, at the Old Bridge Hotel, very friendly great food (fantastic portions) and tonight behind the bar they have a charity bucket for us.

It's the final day tomorrow, spirits are high home to family and friends and hopefully a good reception (in the rain!) again at St Lukes School for mid afternoon, we will be stopping an hour away to let people know what time exactly we will be back.

Tired as I will be tomorrow night I will do a final nights posting and perhaps learn how to upload a video or two.

On behalf of the team, I would like to say a big thanks to Sarah, who has driven the support vehicle, gone shopping for us and looked for lost riders!

Requests Area

Dean
Tamika, Krista miss you both can't wait to get home, been a good trip, hope my house is still in one piece!

Dazzy G
Eh up Pudding Chops, Bran & Dec missing you all lots, won't be long now till I'm home

Martin
Zachary, daddy's nearly finished his big bike ride, look forward to seeing you and mummy tommorow

Kev
All the guys at Humberside last day tommorrow, going to be good to get back to work....... in the car!

Todays Garmin Link:

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/9245929