Cycling in the Lake District: TED THORNHILL tries to climb some of Britain's most outrageous climbs
Lake District 1 - MailOnline 0: TED THORNHILL tries to get his 'daddy belly' up on some of Britain's most outrageous climbs. They look easier in the photos, he discovers... Ted tackles Blea Tarn, Wrynose Pass and 'The Struggle' - which have inclines of up to 25%His training? Mostly cycling in either direction to the Mail's High Street headquarters in Kensington, the Lake District's climbs are a shock to his system - but the views, he says, are spectacular. class="author-section byline-plain">By
-11443637-image-a-467_1668785240337.jpg" height="352" width="470" alt="MailOnline Travel's Ted Thornhill takes a break from Wrynose Pass in the Lake District - one of the toughest cycling climbs in the UK" class="nothing" />It's an aroma I never expected not in the middle of the breathtaking ruggedness of the Lake District - scorching.
But the scorching is what I can smell. the disc brakes on my state-of-the-art Trek road bike.Probably because I had been maniacally squeezing them for two and a half minutes as I raced down one of the most outrageous cycling routes in the UK - Wrynose Pass.
It's a road with fierce, sustained gradients of up to 25% - wild enough to tire the legs and lungs of even the toughest cyclists. n shape and lighter. Going uphill doesn't just tire me – it beats me. And the same goes for the "warm-up" climb - . I have to dismount on both hills to catch my breath.
I'm on an odyssey with my cycling buddy Colin, and it's hard from the start. start-go-pedaling through chaotic rush hour traffic between my home in south London and London Euston to catch an Avanti express train to Oxenholme Lake District, the gateway to the lakes and our mission - to conquer not only notorious hills such as Blea Tarn and Wrynose Pass, but a counted stretch of road...
It's an aroma I never expected not in the middle of the breathtaking ruggedness of the Lake District - scorching.
But the scorching is what I can smell. the disc brakes on my state-of-the-art Trek road bike.Probably because I had been maniacally squeezing them for two and a half minutes as I raced down one of the most outrageous cycling routes in the UK - Wrynose Pass.
It's a road with fierce, sustained gradients of up to 25% - wild enough to tire the legs and lungs of even the toughest cyclists. n shape and lighter. Going uphill doesn't just tire me – it beats me. And the same goes for the "warm-up" climb - . I have to dismount on both hills to catch my breath.
I'm on an odyssey with my cycling buddy Colin, and it's hard from the start. start-go-pedaling through chaotic rush hour traffic between my home in south London and London Euston to catch an Avanti express train to Oxenholme Lake District, the gateway to the lakes and our mission - to conquer not only notorious hills such as Blea Tarn and Wrynose Pass, but a counted stretch of road...
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