Day 5 - Still bloody raining!!!!

Should be 4800ft of climb... my garmin for some reason got wet!

The start of day 5... well what can i say... rain rain rain rain rain... thunder and lightning! bloody miserable!  we decided to delay the set off a bit to see it it cleared... it didn't but at-least it wasn't so heavy when we finally left.

A long day in the saddle with some interesting navigation at the start!!  lol.  We must have found the steepest foot path in Europe to get back on track this morning, shoes off and walk the bikes down!

I've got to be honest today has been pretty hard for me... the riding has been pretty flat again so the miles fly by, but you get plenty of time to yourself, plodding away I found myself thinking of home, I think a few of the gang sensed that might be case and gave me a bit of space.

Chuggy the driver had a bit of mare as well today... meet us at something champagne was his brief (I don't know the exact name)... we are in the Champagne region of France so the sat nav sent him on a right wild goose chase!  lol   but it all came good in the end.

The rain stayed pretty constant until we got to Al's house when it lifted and the sun came out :),  that helped me no end.

The big dilemma of the day was does Sean need to wear his thermal leggings, rain proof leggings, over shoes, plastic bags, rain jacket, Extra think over Jacket, Head warmer or like everyone else just cycling cloths... lol... just joking, he was the only one who didn't get completely soaked to the skin.

Some awesome scenery again today... no not Colin doing the dishes, that was in Al's house... lol

We've seen in the news that the weather has been the same across the whole region and the major rivers are in serious flood...  it might have an impact on our route yet as Lourdes has been hit pretty bad! we should be ok though.

Highlight of the day has to be Colin and Duffers playing silly buggers...  I had to upload this little video (only low quality at the minute) 

No damage done :) 

On the plus side no mechanical issues today :) and by later in the day i was back on form and attempting to out sprint Christian... and winning :) 

Like i said a long day and even team leader Craig was feeling it at the end!

450 miles down and a BIG day tomorrow, over 90 miles but the hillier than ever!

Bed time for me!