My BIGGEST Challenge!! // All Points North
i want to cry seems steeper than it ever has done ever before i need a minute from the rain do i just jack it in i'm like no okay don't just crack on it we are just getting ready to start all points north 2022. if you follow me for a while you will know that i attempted this in 2019 and i ended up scratching after the wind of greater fell got the better of me 2020 just a bit of a washout year because of covid 2021 so last year i trained to do it and then i got little injury uh an achilles injury so i couldn't do it and then now i'm here and i am so excited to do it so even just getting to the start line this year i'm just so excited to do it so this will be you'll see how i get on a few minutes before we set off 1000k to go all points north is an ultra cycling challenge um i'm not going to call it a race because for some people it's not a race it's just a personal challenge although some people taking part will probably want to race it it's roughly about a thousand kilometers there are ten checkpoints based all across the north of england so sheffield is the most southerly point on the event and they spread out all across the north right up to the scottish border riders can choose what order they want to visit the checkpoints in and they plan their own route so it's a free route so riders can make it as as hilly or as not hilly as as they want it to be but just because of the geography of the north of england you're going to encounter some hills at some point it's pretty impossible not to can you hear all the parties going on i'm going from monster hill it's about to go up the first i guess mega climb up to the first checkpoint and it's just started raining so i'm gonna get my waterproofs on it wasn't forecast and i guess this is the point of route planning and like being able to choose your own route you can well you can choose there's a route based on the weather but i kind of want to do this is like the hardest day this way i kind of want to get that out of the way first so i think the forecast is going to rain from about midnight until about 8 a.m so for a treat trying to get these on jesus christ i think it's rain i think it doesn't stop until about 8 a.m just crack on it i've ridden through a forge uh ultimate ankles in water and now i've got a flat tire so i've not had a flat in i don't know how long but because it's wet and just dirty and grubby everywhere then at least we've got some street light to be able to fix it hammering down now i want to cry it's not cold you don't question why the hell am i doing this the weather was meant to be nice mechanic completely self-supported so riders once once they've left here they're on their own basically i mean they've all got a tracker on so we're following their whereabouts but we offer them no assistance whatsoever they only really need to get in touch with us if there's some kind of emergency um so they're completely on their own they've got to think about their own route so i guess the challenge starts really when riders enter because not only have they got to cycle a thousand kilometers they've got to figure out how they're going to cycle 1000 kilometers which they're going to go what's going to be the best route for them and it's really interesting when we see the event unfold all the different directions that riders go in once they sell which is a nice part of the event really kate is so calm all right we're at checkpoint too the rain actually has eased off it's just kind of drizzle now which makes me very happy let's head on to the third one so welcome to the dales my favorite place to ride stalling i can't wait to see this when the sun comes up i'm just gonna put car apart because i'm gonna lie down for two minutes and this is at the bottom of a 25 climb it's not very long though i'm cheating it's really slippery because there's like streams on it so i'm saving my legs for later i'm just gonna ride up there walk up this the steepest bit [ __ ] i want to go because i can't hold my bike on the camera hey sheepies look at those cows playing with the sheep oh look at them i think i think they're scaring the sheep hey stop scaring the sheep getting pretty good through it i'm about five miles from kendall um because i'm heading towards author so i am still pretty wet through i've just accepted it now and i'm just grateful to riding my bike i wasn't saying that when i was changing that point i need a minute from the rain so i'm going to alter and there's two ways to get there you can either go kind of along the way which has about 12k or you can go rhinos there and back but you've got to do rhinos which is like a oh it's ridiculously steep it's almost asleep it's hard not and i've chosen i did it two ways i had both roots in my garment that's why the root plant element of it is so you want to go longer but not as feet or really steep and make it shorter 2252 meters oh and it's been raining since 11 o'clock it's been remaining 12 hours all the way here for that this is the author checkpoint you came with a rhino didn't you no oh so you came that way the way i came and then you're going now oh you're in for a treat you can do it you got it you got it kendall mink cake soft mints pretzels coke i'm actually really enjoying it even though the rain was bad i feel like i'm really struggling teams steeper than it ever has done ever before a tired katie and a fully loaded bike and we're through i'm just like this is definitely a time i'm gonna push up a hill oh god it's so pretty though food shower and then sleep for an hour and then get back out don't be able to help me blister oh i don't know what that is i've tried to sleep can't sleep so i'm just gonna go the main thing was somewhere just to dry my clothes dry everything out have a shower most expensive shower i've ever paid for one night in a room where i'm here for a few hours but it was definitely worth it i've got that nerves again it's ridiculous although this is the most i've ever ridden in two days but i don't want to think about it two days back-to-back it'll be fine i might have to stop for a nap out see on the road it's very pretty but you know how hard that was to leave a nice warm clean comfy hotel room i could understand now are people bivvy because you just want to get in your sleep as soon as you don't get out it's much quicker but i don't know where you gathered i'm definitely not racing this i just want to get around like that is my goal because the most distance i would have done back to back let's so into the night again it's been a while since you've seen me it was very very windy i climbed it's a hot side path anyways like 7k ridiculously windy uh almost got my trousers well i did get them caught in my chain almost threw me off i got one checkpoint uh it was calgary in reservoir but i was so tired at that point i was like i just forgot to film it and then i had a nap in some public toilets so oh and also it took me god it took about seven hours to do well 90k because it was just so hilly so windy and i'm just so sleepy i think because i got back earlier than i thought i would yesterday just couldn't sleep i think i was just too excited i was like no i want to get back out but today i just feel like oh i mean you can tell i just feel really slow my bag's really heavy and saddle's a bit sore i just feel a bit meh so i'm gonna eat and last thing when it's cold and dark it was freezing this morning you don't well i don't and when i'm tired i don't keep up my eating and drinking and so then i feel worse and then it's just a vicious cycle so i'm just gonna have like a minute here i was like do i just jack it in i'm like no okay don't it's just two more days of riding just two days of riding the weather's nice today though this is blue castle checkpoint it's really nice although i think there's like a big massive um beehive it's not going to say loads of b so i'm not going to stay long all right head on back i'll say back can you hear them all it's sun's come out is beautiful very very nice right let's head on a nice little mini minute for a little picnic stop oh but my lips are like wind burn some of the like the control like well i've seen some of them and they're just in the dark so i can't really say but um newcastle was really really nice it's so nice just to have like i guess not normal weather because the forecast i've been checking for a bit it looked like it was gonna be really nice sunny like no wind no rain this is i like it like this you've not seen much of me today but for a few reasons one i've been tired and a little bit grumpy and two the wind has been just awful all the way it was on this road called it was next to hadrian's world and it's called something like military road and uh it was about 20k of just long straight just hill after hill after hill and um you get to the top of it and you sort of thought that was it and then there's like another one oh only oh all into a headwind as well so that was why i didn't film anything that's where i am is going to scott's gap because i'm heading up to bambra castle which will be my seventh out of ten checkpoints and look at this weather and i've got the wind behind me now even better feeling exhausted to be honest i think it's asleep i can ride but it's just not having that sleep that's just tough because there is a co-op there but it's in the sunshine so i might sit in the shade the hills are just like unrelenting and today it's like like 1500 me left me so i thought it would feel easier but i think the end of it going down to um durham well that house should be pretty flat oh god it's so hard there's a quite i say a few a lot of times wait do we just have like a grizzly cry i think it's just because i'm tired and i'm hungry and i have a few little cries i think because it's just hard amazing i'm sitting having this now because i've got another big climb and i'm putting it off this is too many hills for me basically all the points are really ridiculously hilly hard to get two places i don't even know what that reservoir last night is everything last night it's morning i can't remember there's no way i could do any longer than this not like people say oh trying to do trans guys no not a chance not to challenge just a lot once you've done that i'll put it about a mile away i'd rather just go touring how amazing is that i've never been i was like it is beautiful and the weather is absolutely stunning i'm gonna head off all right let's go how amazing was that how cool is this time bridge the rain is gonna start coming about three this afternoon so i'm like i had a few hours and i just i can't wait as much as i wanted to stay in bed i want unless i was in the rain if i could have myself early but i was like no i'll end up stopping and sleeping around because he's on the road last day a bit honest well i'm not back yet but i didn't think i'd make it it was so many times i wanted jack again especially yesterday it's like it just seems too far to ride still seems a long way to ride let's do it it's got a little breakfast two vegan sausage rolls oh my gosh so good what's about ten of them this is ridiculous right this is what i've been doing maybe it's when you're on a long ride on your own i've actually been talking to my body i've been like after this i'm going to treat you i'm going to have a spa day i'm not going to sit on the side i've been saying don't worry about it after just on a saddle for a little bit i'm like bargaining with it just get me back just get back to sheffield so i've just come across the well the skirting of the right word that was good north yorkshire malls and i'm just on my way i've got a few little climbs obviously i'm going down 16 which i'm getting needs to be a steep uphill on the other side i just hope the weather lasts pretty nice oh i had a little nap i think those sausage rolls like i don't know but heavy i had to have a little nap in a bush shelter this next control golfland station i mess around with the route for this probably the most out of all of them because it's the north york malls and there's just steep everywhere like there's i've just literally gone past one that was going up 30 this one's going down 33. so i'll just see just see what what is in store but i think i plotted the most sensible way of doing it but you never know maybe not this is what they said though 25 are you okay today yeah you've been watching me i've been watching you and i've been watching me soon yeah chris no way yeah brilliant totally outstanding what are you doing we've got a fight there'll be a question i need to find what the question is oh god no no checkpoint for me it's checkpoint eight so i've got two more after this yeah yeah you can't see me here yes oh bailin debbie that's what i'm going now oh yeah chris has been down i think i'm trying to find a diamond shaped sign i'm looking for the weight that it yeah oh can't be it down here i came straight past it hello oh i don't look a bit rough to be fair when you're out for this long it's all about like pain management or discomfort management and my nose that's probably a bit much oh it looks ridiculous it's so sore like a little bear or something anyway see look i mix all sortness go away right let's crack on to the next checkpoint i look good i love the sheep good morning thank you hello hello nice haircut thank you so little food stop when you're doing longer eyes it just makes you grateful for the simplest of things right eat and go can't stay in well this is stunning i was not expecting this weather's gonna be the main road but i have plotted the side route so very nice just stopped at this pool but i needed the toilet and then it started to rain so i was like get the bellatones velocity jesus crap i wish i should have a zip on him or something it's raining and look what i found this is what i've come in for oh my god one pound for any bargain he needs a medal people are just so nice and i dropped my gopher in there i was like where is it and he come rushing out it's like i just moved the basket baskets and i heard something drop i think this is yours he is the nicest man and i was just saying that when you when you're out especially on your own for so long sounds really tough but like people being kind even saying like come and sit inside like you just like simple things like it makes you really makes me really teary and like people being lovely like greg my friend sent me a text machine actually made me cry because he was just anyway let's go and now we are at the epitome of cycling in the rain we have marigolds they're actually perfect for riding in the rain and then also my waterproof trousers that i got caught when i was climbing and bloody almost threw me off so i've had to rip the leg and then but i actually ripped on the crank when i did it on the i don't know what it ripped on um so let's tie them with a bubble let's get to this body last control i've got a bit of a headwind at the minute it's going to be a beautiful tailwind all the way home sheffield southbound 7 20km i can't wait it's keeping me going anyway i'm going to go because i want the tailwind i'll see you soon i don't know i thought they were my favorite services but that's not they look like them but it's not so it's been raining it's a bit drizzly but i am feeling good i think it's easier because it's so flat i've never quite enjoyed the flat as much ghoul lead selby york i'm getting close i'm getting close about i think it's about 65k something like that and look who's here tracy andy and gogo steel steel oh so you've watched my channel for a little bit yeah yeah yeah i was like what yeah so like why are you like why are you here and they're like oh we live really close how not honestly i think i'm a little bit tired and it's going to make me a bit i'm a bit stopping here but honestly thank you so much for coming out and everything right i'm gonna head on you've got oh thank you drx is like the go-to because the lower gearing on the front amazing my legs are not sore in the slightest um but i did think they might it might be a bit too low for the flat and then actually on the flat it's been flat all the way back 10 out of 10. i love it
i think i'm going to keep it on my road bikes right last little stint back marigolds so so good so good almost as good as drx but i'm back in sheffield and just to like give me some extra encouragement to get back put on my favorite artistic monkey's album and i've just been singing my little heart out oh i can't tell you how excited i am we've got about three kilometers ah i'm just so made up and i've loved being able to share this whole thing with you this is it i'm almost back oh don't you let me cry he just stopped it's like 10 o'clock at night i'm like um i don't know where i am i've got a list of talking chips i'm talking absolutely nonsense when your hair feels comb you feel a bit more ready
2022-06-12 00:08
