Update - 7:25am

Good to go

25 miles of the Yorkshire Dales here we come!

Update - 10:00pm

Made it to Grinton and another confession

Totally messed up with planning this leg. Very long and also lots of climbing. The highest combined climb of the trip.

Luckily I realised the night before so planned to leave early.

The first 10 miles went really well and even though the second 10 were extremely tough going I was ok. Just glad to be making progress and my ETA was for around 7-7:30pm so that was positive. Some of the paths aren’t really paths and are quite tricky.

The last 5 miles was fairly easy terrain but I found it really hard. My feet were hurting a lot and I was getting tired. Not quite as fit as I thought!! When I got the the hostel (which was on top of a hill!) I’m afraid I just had no energy and it was really windy and wet so I asked if they had any accommodation available other than camping. The person working here was so helpful and let me stay in a dorm and also cooked me dinner (there is a menu and you pay but he was on his own so nice of him to do it). No one else is here so it’s like a private room.
So top marks to YHA Grinton. I’ll be adding them to my monthly charity donations I think.

Apparently day 7 is relatively flat and is definitely shorter so hopefully a good recovery day. Also I notice I’m roughly half way across the country now. Sorry for such a late update.

Some stats from my watch for the day.