Day 7 – Scorchio!

Evening all. Not a lot to report on today I’m afraid. Well which is good in a way for me as it means there’s been no problems or hiccups! But as for reading up on how I’m getting on, today hasn’t been as eventful as the start of the trip. Popped into the supermarket this morning to pick up lunch, then set off at around half 10. Nice casual ride for the first 29 miles until I fancies some lunch. Found my way through a mixture of google maps route and the sat nav. Used the sat nav to get me into the center of town and find the hotel. Just met a bunch of young lads from Bath who are staying in the rooms next door to mine, they have been riding back up to St Malo from La Rochelle, but only done 4 days riding and they then got on the train today. Chatted to them about what the ride is like down to La Rochelle, the said it was very scenic.

I’ve seen some lovely scenes today though myself, none that were good enough to make the cut for the blog but I’m feeling like there could be tomorrow! So hold out for that.
However I would like to add that the weather today has been amazing! Not a cloud in the sky, lets hope that’s with me till the end now, fingers crossed.

When I got here, which was pretty early, guess about 2:30. I showered and changed and jumped back on the bike and headed to my savior of a shop Decathlon. Here I picked up some spare chain links just in case mine decides to pop out again.

Seeing as this is going to be a pretty short update, I thought id take the chance to show you all the extent of the damage to my left hand. The pic shows me trying to bring all my fingers together. They should both look like the hand on the right. I just hope this isn’t a long term thing? Any doctors out there got any advice?

Today’s journey was 46.36 miles, riding time of 3:36:30, max speed 31.1 mph, avg speed 12.85 mph, 2693 calories, 3.5 litres so far.