We're moving the End to End forward !

Training has been going really well and May seems too far away, so we have decided to move our dates for the End to End. After a lot of discussion we have agreed to start on the 26th of August 2011. I rang the bike shop at Wick and they were very helpful, we can send our bikes up by courier and they will set them up ready for us. We have looked at lots of different ways to get to the start, trains, hire cars etc, but we have decided that flying up to Wick is the easiest option, we will fly from Bristol to Edinburgh and then on to Wick. All we have to do then is cycle home. When we first talked about this we thought that we would need 14 days to complete the ride. However having mapped the ride out and looked at where we will camp, it looks like it will be more like 11-12 days (the last day is from Okehampton to Lands Ends, at 102 miles, so we may split this into two days due to the hills, we'll see how we feel when we get there). We have all our equipment now and we are planning to do a camping trip in May to try everything out. Being a bit of a geek I have a spreadsheet detailing the campsites, their tariffs, the daily estimated mileage. I have also mapped the route out on bike route toaster (what a great tool) these can the be uploaded to the sat nav, I just need to work out how to keep it charged up now.

Start	Finish	Miles	Campsite
Wick	Thurso	37.03	Thurso Bay Campsite
Thurso	Lairg	75.56	Dunroamin Camping Park
Lairg	Fort Augustus	81.17	Cumbernalds Campsite
Fort Augustus	Inveraman	90.88	Beinglas Farm
Inveraman	Abington	85.64	Mount View Campsite
Abington	Pooley Bridge	82.42	Waterside Campsite
Pooley Bridge	Croston	75.83	Royal Umpire
Croston	Presthorpe	89.76	Mill Farm Caravan Park
Presthorpe	Clevedon	105.23	Bullock Farm Campsite
Clevedon	Okehampton	87.93	Betty Cottles Inn
Okehampton	Lands End	101.89	Home