Planning the Ride

After another 20 mile training session in the Windsor Great Park we started to plan the route we would take and decided on a start date of around May 9th.  Armed with about 47 pages of a suggested route by one of Simon's friends we calculated that we would shoot for doing around 60 miles a day.  We decided to do the ride in the more conventional south to north direction wit the prevailing wind, rain and (hopefully) sun to our backs.  Seemed to be a bit counter intuitive to me...surely it wouldbe all dowhill from Scotland? 

We were warned that the start of the ride in Cornwall & Devon is extremely challenging with lots of "undulations" to contend with at the outset.

Approximate route map