Day 14

After our rest day, it wasn't too difficult to wake up and get back on the road - we were encouraged by the fact the hills weren't too bad and the navigation was really simple.

What was quite exciting (for me) was arriving in Fort William. After coming this many miles North, it was strange to arrive at a place I'd been before and recognised. Unfortunately, in Fort William it started raining again. The rain continued for most of the day, but it wasn't too heavy... at least?

We literally only followed the A82 all day, although the road was scenic enough to stop us dying from boredom. Because it was very flat and straighforward, we went really fast. This meant we arrived at Fort Augustus with enough time to look around and be tourists. Fort Augustus had a large shop enroute, so we bought milk and Crunchy Nut.

Earlier we had all made bets (a mars bar) on who could guess the time of arrival. We also raised the stakes if someone got within 5 minutes (3 mars bars). This turned out to be a bad idea, because in the last few miles we realised Nick was dangerously close to his guess. The rest of us cycled full speed to avoid paying the 3 mars bars, although Nick didn't have the same motivation and struggled to keep up. Fortunately (for us) we arrived at 4:20, and Nick had guessed 4:30.

From LEJOG Day 14

Because we'd made such good time, we had the hostel to ourselves. The hostel was really nice and looked over Loch Ness. That evening we had enough energy to play the game of life (a board game), and cook a reasonable meal.

Our total distance was 58.3 miles. Here is the route we followed.