DAY 4 : Ardlui to Moffat

Very uneventful day today. 107 miles spent in the rain again. First mechanical problems with the bike. A slight altercation with the Lanarkshire police and a near 30mile road closure disaster. Ok, well maybe it wasn't 107miles in the rain more like 96miles. There was a candidate for the world's worst road outside of Russia, the B7078 which parallels the M74. After 20miles of pot-hole hell I saw an exit sign to Abingdon and pretty quickly realised that I was on the M74. 8miles later and 50yards from the turn off I felt the presence of the local constabulary who after giving me some friendly advice about cycling 40miles per/hour on the hard shoulder and ignoring my pleas about my charity fund-raising they issued me with a £30 penalty fine. After slinking away it was another 25miles in the wet wind to Moffat. With about 3miles to go I found that the 10mile road that I had just come down was actually a closed road and I had to plead and beg for the construction company to be given a special passage through the construction site and then on my way to Moffat.

Facts for the day: great pub lunch in the Auld House (thanks Katie and Warren ps your house is still standing), the 2 pants rotational squad is suffering under the strain and no bananas today.