day three cycle into switzerland we are feeling well good today is going to be a very very big
day on the bike because we've got 2 000 meters of elevation to do in 140k and it's looking like
headwind most of the way extremely hot although we have some cloud cover this morning our eventual
destination is switzerland in like five rides time ben is a bit up against it because he didn't
get to bed until 3am i suffered from insomnia and i just laid there until i passed through
this morning listening to you what noises are making really nice sleeping noise what i wanted
on the road again we're progressively waking up earlier and earlier as we get more and more worn
down by the sun bit of a slower start this morning because ben needed to get sorted after not enough
sleep and today we're riding from belgium are we going into france i think we're going out at 10k
okay we're going into france and then leaving again it's a nice oh smooth tycoon lane to start
things off we're really enjoying this bit of the morning because there's a little bit of hazy cloud
cover the name of the game today is going to be stay hydrated if we have to stop five times
to keep getting water that's what we're going to do because you have to remember on a trip
like this you're eating and drinking for tomorrow there's no point in digging deep
getting back half an hour early 20 minutes early and then suffering for it the next day
and the day after and the day after that so a couple of electrolyte tabs big bottles of water
drinking every 10 minutes 15 minutes even when it's not as hot it's only 25 degrees now lovely
oh nice
ben has said a grand total of one word this whole ride he's running his bike backwards
though so he must be in an all right mood 20k now we're on a lovely bike path
i found a present for chris well it's free as well smaller than the robot no
chris i found you something good you're present for the trip what model is it
it's like a vieira one of those oh is it sony panasonic have you just put it here yeah yeah
we've got it yeah it's not very arrow that way mate what if we do it we put it that way
it's actually probably faster than not having it at all and if i hold it in my butt cheeks it'll
be pretty steady wouldn't it it's like a aerofoil you know like error helmets are long and like a
tailed at the back how many hdmi ports you've got there two look at what our favorite youtubers gta
how you feeling ben five miles time we're halfway so i think i might make it
good it's made it a bit more interesting having a few hills yeah i honestly think hills are better
than completely flat i'd get uncomfortable riding on flat too long unfortunately uh chris hasn't got
his present with him see uh we couldn't figure out we couldn't figure out how to strap it onto
the back of his bike so we've left it where it was and we'll get him to ride back later
we can get you one of those um you know those trailer things you put children in oh yeah and
pull them along probably for sale in verb yeah you put ben in it you can ride back oh yeah
pick up tv and ride back again it's a new tail fin edition isn't it we've got into eating lunch
at 11am which i don't really have a problem with quick stop at lidl starting to heat up now
i'm sure as soon as we start riding after this stop it's gonna feel absolutely horrendous out
there on the plush side we've got through what was basically a very horrible town the ride went from
beautiful farmland to industrial just cars and infrastructure nightmare two bad overtakes and
we've had it so nice stop hopefully when we start riding again everyone goes and has lunch
and we're gonna get some food in now salty things some kind of mystery dip and a shot of curcumin
so good on a very positive note we are nearly at 60 miles
it was only 11 a.m onto our winner fake ham
new editor sounds a big bang in that please
didn't have salt
you're a salty boy francis cave
you see how much salt as i just showed yeah that was quite hard
that last bit we're feeling a little bit cooked but legs are okay we think we've got 40k to go
hopefully a bit less last 10k doesn't count i had a few comments asking to give you
the information about where we're stopping and where we're going
but in order to do that i'd have to know where we're stopping and where we're going so that's why
it hasn't been that in the video so far i'll just follow the garmin route that chris has planned
do you know where we're going and stuff i feel like once the route is planned and you put it on
the head unit and then it's removed from the brain let's see the camera's getting heavier
should we leave the hottest place on earth it is so hot isn't it i was just finding this ice lobby
it's 41 degrees
yeah about red strips to cycle late mate see
that's all right no one gets you here this is the hottest i've been since kelso
it's still only a five on the kelsometer though
i suck milk from that right now i do i'm that thirsty haven't checked in to this video in
a while it's been very hot that's all i have to say oh actually no i love cycling
we have stopped at a wedding because there was one of the caterers standing outside smiling art
she's actually brought this water we obviously look like a mess i've never
been in that first seat in my entire life and i'm not even joking that's not me being dramatic
wanna hug frances yeah every meter up is a meter up mate oh you can't argue with that
i don't know if it's enough got to the hotel chris checked us in there was good news and bad news the
good news was that we could bring the bikes into the room which was up three flights of stairs and
then we realized there was a lift after that bad news is that we're in the middle of nowhere and
this hotel has a restaurant which is shut so we had to get the man who speaks french to help us
because we don't speak very much french definitely not enough to order a pizza to order a pizza
you recovered from the ride yet ben get in there you're sitting kit been here for an hour and a
half time in the chamois the saying is time in the chamois time on the bike as a serious note
as i said earlier if i wasn't on a really long bike ride half this pizza would have just been
put on the side and i would have grazed on it but the rest of the pizza is actually for tomorrow so
now i'm just eating to provide me with more energy tomorrow i've stopped enjoying it
so francis had eight slices 2 400 calories and now he's on the bed he doesn't feel very well
it was the cycling that's made me not feel well i'm not the pizza type thing's bad for you