9. London-Wales-London

Nearly meeting inspirational people, idiocy, crushed technology, fabulous volunteers, a most helpful Oxford bike shop man called Joshua. Fields, exhaustion and a distressed teenager.

6. In the beginning, there was Audax

My packing strategy wasn’t looking good for my plans to do the Transcontinental Race, where people hack their toothbrushes in half, just to save a bit of weight and room.