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Steve Taylor's Journey
Hits a Bump in the Road
lcfn should have been over by now, so the fact that
it’s still a thousand miles short suggests that there
might be a story to tell. there is.
On the morning of 10th February, at around
Sunday May 8th in Forres, home of Eileidh
Facebook group has followers in Scotland,
near Blacklawhill Farm about 4 miles out of
survivor. Then I was made redundant, not ideal
Sweden, Norway, Canada, the USA, Australia
5:30am, I hit the deck on Old Glasgow Road
Stewarton. It was another cold morning, but
nowhere near the -7’s and -9C I’d cycled to
Glasgow in the previous week. Old Glasgow
Road had been gritted that Wednesday
morning so it was a relatively safe option as
routes out of Stewarton go. But as I rounded
the left hander before the long straight, my
lights picked up a river of frozen water across
the road. The gritter had merely ensured that
there was a film of water on the top surface
and as I was doing around 15mph, there was
basically no time to bale out. I hit the deck.
Hard: so hard in fact that I’ve now seen doctors
on three separate occasions about the injuries
to my hands. Every mile that I ride now is a
painful mile. Braking isn’t too bad but changing
gear is a painful process. A month off the bike
made precious little difference so now I’ve
resolved to see LCFN through to the finish by
Paterson, cancer warrior and neuroblastoma
at age 63, and with it the necessity to bang in
fifty mile days was gone.
England, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Romania,
and Sri Lanka and the group has evolved from
just being a story about a bloke on a bike into