6 travel bloggers and I went to Wales for The Great Welsh Showdown and this is my very bad attempt in taking a jump off the cliff. In the most dramatic fashion, I landed hard on my belly, and it really hurt.
Thanks to Preseli Venture for the Coasteering experience and to Cynical Sense (From Blake to Black) for the music, under the Creative Commons license.
The Great Tour, 23rd august, 2010.
Clear blue skies but very strong winds greeted us for Day 52 of The Great Tour through the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, with riders from our Official Partners Waitrose coming down from Head Office to join us, while sponsors Noon Products also sent down some riders to join us for the 87 kilometre leg.
While the hills of the weekend were definitely tailing out, it was still a bumpy day in the saddle, with plenty of little climbs to test the legs, though by now we're all so finely tuned that climbs we would have noticed a few weeks ago seem to glide past unnoticed.
In fact the only slight hiccup was when one of our Week Eight core riders grenade the rear mech of his bike on a climb, but after a quick fix with a Tour wristband and some zip ties we were able to swap him onto one of our excellent Felt support bikes and continue on to lunch at Broad Haven unabated.
We did have one other slight holdup, but that was forty horses moving down one of the narrow lanes we were on!
After lunch and admiring the windsurfers in St Brides Bay we took in a short spell of off-road before reaching Milford Haven, a vastly different section of coastline to that we had experienced just a few kilometres away, but nonetheless a key part of the British coastline.
Taking the toll bridge (free for bikes I'm glad to say) across to Pembroke Dock we were met by the local Mayor and councillor who led us from Pembroke Dock into Pembroke itself, the birthplace of Henry VII.
We finished off with a quick ride around the moat of the castle where Henry was born, as well as a few snaps for the local press who turned out to greet us.
Posted by Graeme on the greattour website