Well today we went to Delamere forest, but before we went myself and mike went to the car boot sale (think garage sale my american cousins) at Winwick which whilst ok in size (smaller than usual seeing as that fairground is still there) was a bit poor retro wise. We left and Mike went and did some shopping in tesco to buy some food for later and some things for the walk. On the way back we spotted another car boot sale and popped in for a look. Mike picked up a board game called “Dirty Minds” which looks like fun.
We arrived at my house after dropping off mike’s shopping and I texted Thecko to see if he was ready for the walk, he replied and said could he be picked up on the way. So Mike had his Pot Noodle and I got myself ready, filled my camelback with 1.5l of water and packed 2 apples as we were going to be doing the 7 mile white route.
Diane had expressed an interest in joining us but after a bit of reminder prompting over SMS it turns out she wasn’t going to join us as she had got up late (pah, call that an excuse) and had stuff to do (pah again), so it was just the three of us as we pulled up to the visitors centre. I bought a new yearly pass for the car-parks (£20) and Mike bought a map of the trails incase we got lost.
Mike refused to do the white trail. So we settled for the wussy option of the red trail (only 3 miles!) and set off. The going was easy, the weather was nice and we made it round none the worse for wear. Mike only had 2 rests and on the whole I was impressed with his performance walking around the circuit. We had a bit of an argument when we came to a hill as Mike thought the path followed the lake while I thought it went up the hill.. I was right. Up the hill we went.
After the walk we headed to the nice pub at the bottom of the road. As we turned out of the Delamere car park onto the main road a biker decided that he would ignore all the cars queuing at the temporary traffic light and overtake them all after the car had let me out nearly resulting in the bike merging with my car … not good but as i’d checked the road one last time before fully pulling out I saw him and braked. We arrived at the pub but unfortunately it was full so we set off to find somewhere else to eat as the promise of pub food was what was keeping Mike going through the final stages 
. We arrived in Cuddington and spotted the white barn (I think thats its name, thecko will confirm hopefully) so we stopped there for some grub. MIke had chicken burger, and thecko and myself had a H Mighty Burger, great value at only £4.99 each. They each arrived on a 17″ diameter plate with chips, salad, onion rings, corn on the cob and coleslaw … impressive.
After the meal we were all completely full of food and waddled back to the car for the journey home. The drive home was uneventful and now i’m just waiting for my bath to cool down a tad before I go and de-smell myself. An enjoyable day and i’m looking forward to next weekend when we will either do the red route twice, or tackle the blue routs (5 miles). Mike is going to feel sore in the morning but its all part of the process, exercise gets easier the more you do it so it needs to be done skipper.
just as I passed the 100 mile mark on my odometer, a 1cm thorn decided that it would embed itself into my tyre and into the innertube. This caused a slow puncture, I noticed it as I was starting to drift with each pedal movement. I stopped, examined the outside of the tyre, found the thorn and pulled it out. We took off the rear tyre, found the hole, patched it and re-pumped the wheel up in minutes, nice.
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