(RIP) Dennis
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.....and completed my IronButt 1000
Left home at 6am Wednesday morning, arrived back some 20 hours later with a little over 1000 miles showing on the GPS.
The original idea was to achieve the mileage without using any motorways at all. In the event, weather and traffic got the better of me so I hopped onto the M5 for the trip home, so had a total Motorway milage of a little under 200 miles.
Overall, considering the time of year the weather was fairly kind to me with just odd, quire heavy showers last at the most an hour. Biggest fright I had was as I left home we had just had quite a heavy shower in Carmarthen…..on freezing roads, I totally lost the back-end as I exited our drive. Nearly went back to bed at that point…..
First part of trip was then taken very gently and took me out to Fishguard then right round the Welsh coast to St Asaph, meaning that at the end of the first two hours I was running about 20 minutes behind schedule. However once the daylight arrived I picked up the pace and by the Shrewsbury was back on target in spite of a break just before Oswestry. Then dropped down through Ludlow, then across through the Cotswolds to Oxford, Reading, Winchester, Plymouth and on the Penzance by which time I had logged a little over 700 miles.
I had originally intended to turn right at Lands End but wasn’t sure if anything would be open to obtain a dated and timed receipt. So Fueled up in Panzance at Safeway and McChukups and headed for home. In view of delays getting through the rush hour traffic along the South Coast (this seemed to start at about 3.30!) My intended run back along the North Corwall/Devon coast was abandoned in favour of making up time on M5/4. To add a few miles lost from taking the scenic route I left the M49 in favour of fuelling up at Aust . that gave me just enough milage on the GPS to finish at Carmarthen, otherwise the plan was to finish at Haverfordwest…
I have attached a mapsource file of the route for anyone interested or mad enough to want to have a go.
Guess it’s got to be the Bum Burner 1500 Gold next!………….but not till the weather is warmer…..how about mid-summers day?
Left home at 6am Wednesday morning, arrived back some 20 hours later with a little over 1000 miles showing on the GPS.
The original idea was to achieve the mileage without using any motorways at all. In the event, weather and traffic got the better of me so I hopped onto the M5 for the trip home, so had a total Motorway milage of a little under 200 miles.
Overall, considering the time of year the weather was fairly kind to me with just odd, quire heavy showers last at the most an hour. Biggest fright I had was as I left home we had just had quite a heavy shower in Carmarthen…..on freezing roads, I totally lost the back-end as I exited our drive. Nearly went back to bed at that point…..
First part of trip was then taken very gently and took me out to Fishguard then right round the Welsh coast to St Asaph, meaning that at the end of the first two hours I was running about 20 minutes behind schedule. However once the daylight arrived I picked up the pace and by the Shrewsbury was back on target in spite of a break just before Oswestry. Then dropped down through Ludlow, then across through the Cotswolds to Oxford, Reading, Winchester, Plymouth and on the Penzance by which time I had logged a little over 700 miles.
I had originally intended to turn right at Lands End but wasn’t sure if anything would be open to obtain a dated and timed receipt. So Fueled up in Panzance at Safeway and McChukups and headed for home. In view of delays getting through the rush hour traffic along the South Coast (this seemed to start at about 3.30!) My intended run back along the North Corwall/Devon coast was abandoned in favour of making up time on M5/4. To add a few miles lost from taking the scenic route I left the M49 in favour of fuelling up at Aust . that gave me just enough milage on the GPS to finish at Carmarthen, otherwise the plan was to finish at Haverfordwest…
I have attached a mapsource file of the route for anyone interested or mad enough to want to have a go.
Guess it’s got to be the Bum Burner 1500 Gold next!………….but not till the weather is warmer…..how about mid-summers day?
