The Whole Cycling Thing...

Don't ask me why, but for some reason I have come up with this crazy scheme to cycle around Wales as a holiday - a HOLIDAY! I know, stupid. Even more bizarrely, I seem to have convinced Matt, Martin, possibly Fisher if he is allowed off of his leash and a chap called Gareth that Phil knows to come with me. The proposed route is in yellow and takes us from Swansea, over the Brecon Beacons, right up through mid Wales ("hills" and "valleys" are words being bandied about, along with "mountains"), across Snowdonia and over Anglesey to Holyhead. Then we turn around and come back down the West Wales Coastal path, down to Carmarthen and then back across along the South Coast to Swansea. Worryingly, the route up is mostly marked as strenuous, but follows the following probable stages:

Day 1 - Cardiff - Brecon (in this case Swansea to Brecon via Merthyr) - relatively easy
Day 2 - Brecon - Builth Wells - Moderate - 32 miles
Day 3 - Builth Wells - Llanidloes - Moderate - 32 miles
Day 4 - Llanidloes - Machynlleth - Strenuous - 24 miles
Day 5 - Machynlleth - Dolgellau - Stenuous - 15 miles
Day 6 - Dolgellau - Porthmadog - Strenuous - 29 miles
Day 7 - Porthmadog - Caernarfon - Moderate - 29 miles
Day 8 - Caernarfon - Holyhead - Easy - 38 Miles

Some of these stages I reckon we can do in much shorter times if we are fit enough and push on, but we shall see (ie it depends on how much my ass hurts).

The way back has yet to be calculated.....

I suspect we will get some sponsorship/charity type stuff going on also.