Land’s End to John O’Groats, the length of Britain, also known as LEJOG. Way back in 2008 I momentarily flirted with idea of how close to the LEJOG record of 44 hours I could get. I bought a bike on eBay, woefully large for me, smothered it in 20kg’s of kit in 5 pannier bags and set off from Land’s End hungry for adventure.
There is a famous saying that goes like this. Try, try and try again... and then give up because you don’t want to look like an idiot. Well it’s safe to say that I did just that and after about 3 hours on the bike I realised I was nowhere near the 44-hour pace. The ride eventually took me 25 days, or 584 hours.