We left the luxury of the Brangate B&B with a full English breakfast in our stomachs and waved goodbye to our hosts Adam and Denise. At £25 each, with a superb breakfast, the Brantgate B&B is an excellent stop over for cyclists riding LEJOG, the Coast to Coast or walkers wanting to climb the magnificent fell of Blencathra. The quite lanes of North Cumbria were a good start to the day.
We made our first stop at Watts Victorian Coffee shop in Carlisle where we enjoyed the morning sunshine.
We made our way into Scotland via John O Groats and cycled along the A75 from Annan to Dumfries. Cycling on long flat roads with a head wind makes the worst combination for enjoyable riding. The lack of changing scenery and the grind of cycling into a head wind, where sometimes you have to pedal down hill, made this stage of the journey very dull.
We had a welcome break from the headwind at an ice cream stop where we met Jordan and his family. We met the traffic coming out of the Queen of the South game in Dumfries and on the busy A76 to Thornhill we were thankfully aided by a tail wind.
One mile out of Thornhill I heard a loud crack which sounded like the frame of my bike had broken. After looking at the bike we discovered a broken spoke on my rear wheel where I had been carrying the large panniers for the past three days. Dad skillfully repaired the wheel with a flexible spoke.
We had fish and chips in Thornhill and rode the easy 12 miles to Sanquhar.
Glasgow and Loch Lomond tomorrow with a day a heavy rain forecast.
Stats
2415 feet climbed
83.7 miles
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