"Once in a Lifetime..."...

A civilised breakfast, knowing we only had a shortish pull to hand over at Cape Cornwall: a short pull that got longer with successive road signs "Newquay 12 miles" became "Newquay 13 miles", before peaking at "Newquay 15 miles".........."Road to Nowhere".......indeed. Bit of dodgy route finding saw me hit the A30 sooner than intended but at least the road surface was better than it would have been on the chosen route. Over the hills above St Ives, where the "Alice Blue" colour of the sea was an inspiration and I'm on the coast road......racing traffic, especially Roger, and giving it my best "racing" effort for the last day. Rocket down the 1 in 5 into Cape Cornwall to finish my stint. Hand over to John, then back out of Cape Cornwall and over to Sennen, where the bike is finally abandoned and we regroup to march over the coastal path to Lands End! A faster day on the bike: 70 rolling miles on the trusty old Tarmac in 3 hrs and 10 mins. Might be getting a bit fitter after all. Champagne, photos.......the crowds we could see on our approach turned out  not to be for us, just bemused tourists.......and off to the beach for a swim while Roger sits down to do some interviews with John and Marjorie. It's done. Sense of achievement? Well, as usual I think each of us values what the others did far more than his/her own contribution, so we'll have to hold fire on that analysis for a little while. Will follow up with one more post with some facts and figures.......probably reasonably impressive for four old gits with a combined age of  240......but in our own heads we still think we're all forever 17!!!!