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\"cycle\"<\/a>Day 1 \u2013 1st August \u2013 55.65 miles<\/strong>
\n It was still raining when I pedaled away from the Sandy Bank Hotel at just after 8 am. The wind\u00a0was still blowing too, not so strongly as the night before but luckily still from the same direction,\u00a0<\/span>this time blowing me along the A30 towards Penzance. Although I had the CTC route highlighted\u00a0<\/span>on my map, as I was making good time on the main road and feel reasonably comfortable in\u00a0<\/span>traffic, I decided to bypass Penzance and stayed on the A30 till just before Camborne. Then I\u00a0<\/span>thought that I ought to at least try and follow the Club’s suggestions, so dived down through\u00a0<\/span>Camborne and on to Redruth, where I got hopelessly lost trying to pick up the route. I eventually f<\/span>ound the right road after asking for directions and riding up a long, steep pedestrianised street\u00a0<\/span>from the town centre.<\/span><\/p>\n

I stopped at a MacDonald’s for some tea just before Truro and had a brief chat with two more\u00a0<\/span>E2Eers \u2013 youngsters on slick sporty road bikes. They said they were camping en route, which\u00a0<\/span>didn’t ring true with the tiny backpack each one was carrying and no cycle luggage, until they\u00a0<\/span>added that the support team was behind them in the van. They were predicting a ride of eight days;\u00a0<\/span>\u201ca bit too ambitious\u201d I thought; neither of them looked fit enough to put in that sort of daily\u00a0<\/span>mileage; ten days possibly.<\/span><\/p>\n

I carried on up the A390 and through St Austell, intending to stop at one of the camp sites shown\u00a0<\/span>on the map on the other side of town. Before reaching the marked ones, a sign advertising a\u00a0<\/span>Caravan site pointed to the left up a hill from the main road. I asked in the corner shop if they took\u00a0<\/span>campers; the woman behind the counter said she thought they did. A quarter of a mile up the hill\u00a0<\/span>and I came to a pleasant little site with a beautiful view over St Austell Bay. \u00a37 secured a tent\u00a0<\/span>pitch and a lovely hot shower.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dinner was simple. It consisted of a can of fish and some boiled fresh vegetables, bought from the\u00a0<\/span>aforementioned corner shop, washed down with rooibos tea. I sat outside my tent in the late\u00a0<\/span>evening sunshine watching the boats bobbing about in the bay and thinking to myself \u201cthis is what\u00a0<\/span>cycle touring is all about\u201d. I deemed day one to have been a success as I crawled into my sleeping\u00a0<\/span>bag for my first nights camping this summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Day 2 \u00ad 2nd August \u2013 37.8 miles<\/strong>
\n Although it hadn’t rained during the night the outside of the tent was soaking wet with dew, and the\u00a0<\/span>inside of the flysheet dripping with condensation. Because I hadn’t camped for some time this\u00a0<\/span>quite surprised me at first; it shouldn’t have done. It’s actually quite rare to be able to pack a dry<\/span>
\n tent first thing in the morning in this country, whatever the weather or time of year. The sun came\u00a0<\/span>up and showed the Bay off beautifully, as I sat and ate my porridge and drank my tea.\u00a0<\/span>I was packed up and on the road for just before eight o’clock, heading east on the A390 towards\u00a0<\/span>Liskeard and Tavistock. It wasn’t long before the sky darkened and a misty, mizzly rain\u00a0<\/span>descended. It wasn’t enough to warrant donning water proofs; the going on the hills would’ve\u00a0<\/span>made it just too hot for that anyway. <\/span><\/p>\n

The only way to describe the hills now was horrendous; steep\u00a0<\/span>grinding climbs necessitating the lowest gears and sometimes no more speed than 4 mph, followed\u00a0<\/span>by headlong downward dashes of 35 and sometimes 40 mph. The most spectacular of these was\u00a0<\/span>the dive down to the Tamar Valley a few miles before Tavistock. However, once across the river\u00a0<\/span>the climb back out was soul\u00ad destroying; it seemed never\u00ad ending.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’d been following the CTC recommended route all day and, once through Tavistock, had little\u00a0<\/span>choice other than to stay on it. This meant taking the B3357 out towards Dartmoor but after the\u00a0<\/span>day’s hills so far, I wasn’t about to attempt going over the Moor till the next day. There were two\u00a0<\/span>choices of camp site on the edge of the Moor after Tavistock. I chose the first one I came to,\u00a0<\/span>which was really rather silly as it meant nearly a mile’s ride away from the main road. I didn’t\u00a0<\/span>know it till the next day, but the other one was right beside the route and only a short distance from\u00a0<\/span>the turn off for the chosen site. However, Langstone Manor proved to be a very pleasant place to\u00a0<\/span>camp; if I’d have had the time, I’d have lingered longer and enjoyed some if its many facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n

The site fee was \u00a315, which I thought rather steep for a cyclist and a single tent, but the proprietor\u00a0<\/span>asked if I was doing the ride sponsored and when I explained the Harley Slack situation, she gave\u00a0<\/span>me a tenner back. That’ll go into the pot.<\/span><\/p>\n

The site boasted an excellent restaurant but I’d already bought ingredients for a simple camp meal\u00a0<\/span>back in Tavistock so passed up the opportunity. Saved me a bit of money too. To my dismay, as I\u00a0<\/span>got ready for any early night, I found that my little blowup camping pillow had sprung a leak and\u00a0<\/span>went flat within minutes of being inflated. A rolled up bundle of clothes would have served as a\u00a0<\/span>replacement for at least one night but I’d noticed that the site shop had some camping equipment in\u00a0<\/span>stock; alas, not a camping pillow though. The proprietor came to my rescue and loaned me a full\u00ad\u00a0<\/span>sized conventional feather pillow for the night \u2013 luxury indeed!<\/span><\/p>\n

Having set myself a target of at least 50 miles a day, I was rather demoralized by the meager\u00a0<\/span>distance covered so early on in the ride. However, being a lone cyclist, over the years I’ve become\u00a0<\/span>rather adept at self motivation; self delusion or playing psychological games some might say. So\u00a0<\/span>as I fell asleep, I resolved to modify my ambitions for day 3 to simply getting over Dartmoor and\u00a0<\/span>not worrying too much about distance covered.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ernie Buck is 66 years old and has lived in various parts of\u00a0Yorkshire for the last 30 years. A continual commuting cyclist,he has done a number of long distance solo expeditions\u00a0within the UK, but dreamt of cycling to India and beyond for years.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Having arrived in India in early 2006, Ernie continued on\u00a0around the world and made it back to Liverpool 17\/12\/2006,\u00a0across the Atlantic aboard the vessel MV Reinbek\u00a0<\/em>some 17 months after he left the UK in July 2005.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n

In 2009 Ernie did the\u00a0Land\u2019s\u00a0End\u00a0to\u00a0John\u00a0O\u2019Groats cycle ride.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The next episode of Ernie\u2019s journey will appear in the May\u00a0edition of Many Roads.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

– See more at: https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/ernies-end-end-lands-end-john-ogroats\/#more-2839<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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