Ooooooh the pain

We cycled the shore road about 5miles to the junction where we turned onto 'The Ross Road' - moral was high, we had a new challenge, it was a sunny day and we had the open road in front of us. Arran is great, lovely scenery, quiet roads and friendly locals at every town.

The picture is from 'The Ross Road', it was like this most of the way and we were enjoying ourselves.

Then the hills started.

We soldiered on but they kept coming and we found ourselves weary from the previous day. After a few miles of hills we were off the bikes and pushing them up hill. It was a tough slog. We saw 3 cars on that road, it had a feeling of punishing wilderness about it. It was becoming a hot day and we ran out of water. Filling up from the local streams was impossible as the water out there is saturated in peat, so you end up with a smelly light brown coloured drink - we decided to dehydrate instead.

4miles to Lamlash, the hills were getting really tough then disaster struck.