Day4

I was told from a friend that completed this trip himself that day 4 was the tough one, and he was right.  Yesterday Martyn twisted his chain and realized last night that it would all need to be replaced, we waited till 9 0'clock for the shop to open, (Dave Hanes cycles) and purchased a new chain and rear cassette, (£40). 4 Years working at halfords during uni, showed as he replaced old for new in less than 5 mins and we were back on the road.  The first 50 miles today was pretty flat and boring really, we just kept at a good speed to make up the time lost this morning, when we reached Lancaster things started looking good, the A6 took us through quaint little villages and stunning countryside, with the odd hill or two. lol.  At around 40'clock though it began to rain, (Forest Gump Style) we had every kind of rain for the rest of the journey, and to make things worse at Kendal the Hills became Mountains, and the flats became nonexistant.  We got to a little town called Shap we were drenched and freezing cold, we passed a Fish and Chip shop and as we had ridden through lunch and were going to arrive to late for dinner we stopped, taking our shoes off and pouring the water out got a few laughs from the locals, and we decided to phone the girls to come and meet us for moral support. lol.  We cracked some glow sticks fixed our lights and decided to go all out for the 29 miles we had remaining, we drafted each other on the flats reaching speeds of around 25/26 mph, and had a good laugh getting aerodynamic, attempting to get the fastest speed on our computers during the downhills.  With 10 miles to go and about 30 mins to get checked into the Hostel we picked it up again and made it with 5 mins to go. lol  After a hot bath were now getting ready for the day we've been looking forward to - Crossing The Border!!!.  Next stop (((  FALKIRK ))) Woohoo!!!   Song of the day ( singing in the rain)lol.