Day 3 – Simon giving us all heart attacks!

Thankfully, the previous day’s wind had died down significantly and we had a gorgeous sunny morning start. Day 3 was always planned to be a reasonably long one (105 miles) and a bit of a diversion around Mayenne, meant that we expected it to be even longer still. But it did come as quite a large surprise after 40 miles when Simon announced that there was 85 miles to go. So heads down and some epic team cycling meant that we got to lunch feeling that we had at least taken a reasonable amount out of the total. It was at this point that we discovered that Simon had no clue how to use his GPS unit and we did not have to do 125 miles! Another minor diversion meant we cycled 112 miles, with temperatures hitting 31°C we needed to take on lots of fluid… unfortunately the only bottled water available at the supermarket was a lightly gassed number; which, when loaded onto bikes and shaken vigorously gave our legs a refreshing wash at unexpected times, or exploding bottle lids into our faces!

The evening was brightened up by the news that we’d hit £5,000 in donations; thank you all, you wonderful lot! Accommodation in Les Loges was generously provided by the Hull family, thank you!

Route details can be found here:

https://www.strava.com/activities/302453124 (Sinéad)

https://www.strava.com/activities/302667514 (David)

I realise it may seem that most of our time is spent in cafés, but I promise we spent quite a lot of time on the bikes!