The VC’s Life Cycle 3 Blog: Day 13 – Hatfield to Nevill Holt

It was another long day, longer than it should have been. Because breakfast at Hertfordshire University was not available until 0730, everyone set off later than usual. Andy, Steve and Neville got off to a flyer, hoping to make time to see Manchester City on the way. Chris and Penelope followed. Karen, Kate, Marion, Stefano …

The VC’s Life Cycle 3 Blog: Day 11 – Cardiff to Wantage

Another 100 mile day (well, 101 to be precise) though Chris exceeded even that with 110. Getting out of Cardiff is even harder than getting out of York. Chris went solo today and was away quickly, his navigation challenges came later than ours. The rest of us, 11 riders, plus Roger, plus our new leg …

The VC’s Life Cycle 3 Blog: Day 10 – Swansea to Cardiff

Today was another day. What a contrast to yesterday. We ate very late last night, joined by Susan and Jenny. Despite that, all riders were at breakfast before 0700 and ready to go shortly after 0800. Roger, who knows this part of Wales like the back of his hand, suggested some adjustments to the route, …

The VC’s Life Cycle 3 Blog: Day 9 – Aberystwyth to Swansea

Hmm, I’m not sure where to begin today. So maybe I should just start from the beginning. We had a kind of home-made / dig in breakfast in one of the Halls of Aberystwyth University, lots of bags and cartons of stuff that got us there. There was way too much chatter about routes and …

The VC’s Life Cycle 2 Blog: Day 7 – Annan to Kirkby Lonsdale

Normal service has been resumed, four punctures today, one each for Kate, Andy, Chris R and Steve. There were also a number of mechanical failures. It is not only us riders that are taking a bit of a battering on consistently rough roads, some close to being corrugated. The bikes are suffering too and the …

The VC’s Life Cycle 2 Blog: Day 4 – Spean Bridge to Cairndow

The weather forecast for today promised it would be grim. It was grim, and we had 93 miles to do. But, first things first: In yesterday’s blog I forgot to mention it was Simon’s birthday. Because our ‘hosts’ at Spean Bridge Hotel refused to serve us dinner because we were 10 minutes late, we were …

The VC’s blog: JoGLE Day 5: Dunfermline to Berwick-on-Tweed

David Ross and his partner Emma Pilkington flew in from London to join us for this and tomorrow’s leg. David is a distinguished alumnus from our School of Law, who has just joined the University Council and will Co-Chair (with Jeff Randall) the Strategy Board for our upcoming Development Campaign. The first part of today’s …