A big day to complete today…around 90 miles to finally hit the most easterly point of Britain, which will complete the West to East part of the journey.

Four becomes Five again…After the groups best nights sleep of the trip, Friday brings good news on James’ knee…he is still hurting, be he feels well enough to rejoin us for the ride.

As we were in a Youth Hostel, Kevin and Vicky kindly prepared hot food for us for breakfast…mmm, bacon, beans and toast.  Perfect fuel for a long day in the saddle.  After packing our stuff up into the support vehicles, and meeting and chatting with the Mayor of Saffron Walden, we made a few adjustments to the bikes and set off.

With a head wind and a surprising number of short hills to conquer, we were counting down the miles to our lunch spot in Diss and the days destination of Ness Point in Lowestoft.  Taking the direct route along the A143, the road was relatively busy and being fast without getting knocked off was key.  After losing time in Bury St Edmunds, where the road signage was rubbish, we finally made it to lunch at around 2:45pm.

After refueling with a fine lunch prepared by Vicky, there was time to drop the bent frame off at a bike shop in Diss, whilst Matt did a quick interview for Radio Norfolk.  Listen to the interview with Matthew Gudgin on the BBC iPlayer.  The inteview was played at around 5:40pm.

We set off again, eager to get to Ness Point on our 7th Day of cycling, so the pace picked up as the rolling hills became flatter.  The A143 got busier with the Friday afternoon traffic and the drivers were more interested in getting home early than they were in giving us some space…please give cyclists room when driving…it really is quite frightening when you get that close at high speeds…a few seconds to wait for a gap to give us room wont really affect your drive time!!  We decided that as soon as we could utilise the less busy minor roads, we would get off.  Its was also nice to take the time too look around and take in the gorgeous scenery when your not so worried about getting hit by fast moving traffic.

As we approach Lowestoft, the sights from the training ride we did start to appear and the feelings of tiredness dissapeared as the excitement and anticipation built on hitting the most Easterly point of our journey.  Our support team, Vicky and Kevin were waiting to greet us at Ness Point…as we arrived together as a five.  It was a great feeling to arrive and finally see the sea again.  Not hanging around there too long, we had a few pictures, then set off out of the wind and to our Hotel.

With an exciting day in order on Saturday, we headed out for some food and a few drinks in Lowestoft.  Dont forget that you can still make a donation online or by support us by joining in with all or part of our final days cycling.  Visit the Join In page for full details of where to meet us in Lowestoft or Gorleston.  If your not up for cycling, you can join us at the Town Hall in Great Yarmouth as we cross the finish line at around 1pm.  We will have collection buckets with us between Gorleston and Great Yarmouth to take any donations you may wish to give…please give genrously…all the money collected will go to the Charities as selected by the Mayor.

A further collection will be taken at the Mayors Civic Ball taking place on Saturday night at the Ocean Rooms in Gorleston.

If you are up early on Saturday, dont miss another catch up interview live on BBC Radio Norfolk.  This is due to take place after 7am…be sure to tune to 95.1fm.

Please check back again soon for an update on the last days ride and the post ride updates including unseen photo’s and videos taken along the way.