Is this what soldiers felt like when they came back from Viet Nam? A completely different existance for a couple of weeks and straight back to normal the next day feels very surreal. I keep getting flashbacks at inappropriate times. I can recommend the LEJOG diet plan to anybody. I ate like a horse and lost a pound per day. It does take a few calories to get my bulk up a hill! Only John S managed to lose more shedding about 30lb in 3 days. Get well soon big John.
Bodies and bikes survived remarkably well. We manged fewer punctures between us in 6 x 900 miles than Debbie got in one afternoon. 1 bent wheel and a set of peddles isn't much to go through. The car suffered more. Environmental health are coming to clean it up when they've finished at Rock Ness. No broken bones or pulled muscles either. I was laughed at when my sudocrem stash was spotted at the start. Nobody's laughing now! Bacon anybody?
All of the riders are united in saying that without our support crew it would have been impossible. I hope they all enjoyed it as much as they seemed to. By the end we had a support convoy.
My only regret is that it all went by so quickly I don't think I took enough in. (That and having to get off and push on one hill - chapeau to the ones that didn't get off - you know who you are.) Maybe the flashbacks will join up into a coherent memory.
As for the race, it was a draw!
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