Cycling from Rasen to Oxford
First, let me apologise for neglecting my trusty readers. But I’m back, back my magical journey.
On the Sunday at the start of freshers’ week I cycled from Middle Rasen to St John’s College, Oxford in 15 hours 59 minutes, including all stops. Unfortunately due to a dark start at 5.09am, I couldn’t set up my odometer to accurately measure the distance, but I’ll attach a map to show you. Note that I didn’t go as the crow flies (120 miles), but saught out backroads, so the distance is a bit more.
It was a nice cycle, because I wisely chose to carry virtually nothing and get my mum to bring it all in the car the following day. I wouldn’t say it was overly exerting, but I didn’t quite realise how hilly central England is, living in Lincolnshire and all. By two-thirds of the way there’s definitely only one possible speed.
Donov blogged this first. Here’s what he had to say:
Martin is INSANE
Mon, 01 Oct 2007
yesterday martin completed a 150 MILE cycle rids from his house in middle rasen to OXFORD, this journey took him 17 hours in total and has made me think that he is insane.