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MOLLY WEAVER

Bad luck ends LeJog dream

I recently embarked on a big two-wheeled challenge, and almost as soon as it started it also ended. I was riding from Land’s End to John o’Groats, completely self-supported, on a mixture of gravel, singletrack and road as part of this year’s GBDuro. With the added element of needing to carry all of my food for the duration of the event, I set off on a 35kg bike and headed off into the unknown.

Although I knew that there

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