One challenge at a time

                  Best laid plans and all that! I set off from a lovely B and B in Minehead... ok the sun wasn't shining. My aim... to cycle the West Country Way Bikepacking route. I had a total of 4 days. The route was around 116 miles. Given that I had managed that mileage in Canada in 1 day... I figured 2 days out and 2 back wasn't unreasonable. I packed as if I was going on a 4 week challenge... more of that later... but my kit this time included a tent... 1kg of extra kit with the purpose of evaluating its presence for next September and Ecuador. The rest of my kit had been tried and tested on the Tour Divide so I was pretty happy with it. The initial downhill to the start of the route was certainly a good way to ease in to a ride and then I was greeted with a view of the Bristol channel ... rays of sunshine beaming down from ominously grey clouds... sparkling off the tops of the waves. I peddled along the flat concrete of the coastal path... delighting in being