Day 5 with details.

Just a quick note from me to add to Mark's wordy account of today. We
did actually have a nice morning's cycling once the obligatory bike
faff was complete. A lovely breakfast in Ludlow and then our fastest
section of riding so far to shrewsbury made up some time. After lunch
I went in search of some overshoes. Alas the only open bike shop had
more bmx than you could wish for but no clothing. It was only as we
were finishing lunch and leaving shrewsbury that the sky started
falling on our heads but fall it has. As in deed have I! The first and
hopefully only crash of the trip was remarkably spectacular seeing as
we were going up hill at the time. Managed to take out Marc as well
and luckily the cars behind were paying attention and stopped as we
spread out over the road. luckily nothing broken and just a little
road rash. Over all it has been a fairly easy day's cycling with no
major hills but 91 miles is still a long way and the overbearing
memory will be of rain. Tom