Please find the stories, photos and GPS tracks of my Land’s End to John O’Groats bike tour in the UK in September 2010 here. More details and a big thank you for the amazing 1,361.82 € which were donated for Oxfam in Germany can be found here.
For giving you a short overview, the following shows the GPS track of the complete route, plus total elevation/distance/time/average:
the complete route from Land’s End to John O’Groats [elevation/timing shown behind this link are incorrect - only the route itself + distance is displayed correctly]:
These are the correct totals: ascent: 14,156 m; descent: 14,223 m; dist.: 1,598.95 km; travel time: 104:09; moving time: 83:51; overall avg.: 15.4 kph; moving avg.: 19.1 kph; max. speed: 61.9 kph
The route displayed day by day including correct daily summaries of elevation/distance/time/average can be found here.
Somehow time didn’t allow to write a lot about the trip during or after the tour, however, you still find many interesting details about the trip preparations and the planning. And of course the photos and GPS tracks tell very well how I made my way from Cornwall to northern Scotland.
In detail, you find the following posts on my cycling blog (bike tour #2: Land’s End to John O’Groats (September 2010)):
Land’s End to John O’Groats bike tour (September 2010)
Please help me supporting Oxfam Germany!
Berchtesgaden to Flensburg instead?! Or: boycott EasyJet!!
Leeds Met is also trying to support me
Photos of the tour are finally online!
Enjoy watching the photos and reading the rest of my cycling blog. And please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me if you want to learn more about the tour; I’m always happy to provide you with input, no matter if you’re planning a similar trip or if you’re simply an interested reader. Just keep in mind: there’s little more enjoyable than bike touring (there are ideas for at least four different future bike tours stuck in my head already again 
)!
I’ll leave you with a few randomly chosen impressions of the tour – all photos can be found at ”Photos of the tour are finally online!“
before the start in Land’s End
ready, steady, go! – 1,598.95km lying ahead of me
one of endless descents and ascents (here: at the western foothills of Peak Distric National Park)
Peak District National Park near Buxton (strong high winds)
ridiculous 524m seriously was the highest point of my entire tour – still the overall ascent of the tour accumulated to 14,156 metres!
at my favourite pub in the UK – The Old Hill Inn in the Yorkshire Dales (which wasn’t en route at all)
but the ‘warm chocolate pudding with white chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream’ (best cake on earth!) was reason enough to include a 1.5 hours detour
Lake District National Park near Windermere/Kirkstone Pass
crawling up Kirkstone Pass straight into the fog
my most loyal companions along the tour
beautiful Lake District National Park – unfortunately a little foggy/rainy/cold
crossing the Firth of Clyde via Erskine Bridge near Glasgow
best suggestion for bike touring: expect anything anytime
cycling along my favourite lake in the UK: Loch Lomond
impressive scenery in the area of Glencoe – despite the grey morning
Scottish mountains – often explored on foot during previous years
waterfalls in Invermoriston next to Loch Ness
my private campsite next to River Beauly
view from Struie Hill towards Dornoch Firth near Bonar Bridge – the wettest day of my trip has started
wearing waterproofs or not, it didn’t make a difference anymore
cycling through the remotest area of of my tour between Lairg and Bettyhill – here just before Altnaharra at Loch Naver
he had a 4WD, I had a bicycle for crossing such “puddles”…
reaching the British northern coast line
at Dunnet Head (the most northerly point of mainland Britain) on my last day, some 20km away from my destination
I’ve made it – in John O’Groats after 1,598.95km!
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Hi Martin,
freut mich über Dich wieder einmal was zu hören / lesen
Es ist wirklich beeindruckend welche Strapazen Du immer wieder auf Dich nimmst. Ich ziehe meinen Hut! Wahnsinn.
Auch Deine Spendenaktion finde ich eine super Aktion.
Viele Grüße nach R.
Martin