Day 28 - Calculations are harder than they seem

Brampton, Cumbria to Appleby, Cumbria
33.00 miles (1533.19 miles cumulatively)

You would have thought that after 28 days on the bike (well 27 it would have been before I started the day) that I could work out a simple distance from A to B. It's easy really, when I was planning, type in the place of departure and then type in the place of destination, via any necessary points of interest or requirements. For some unknown reason, however, I got today's wrong. Plain and simple, wrong. I had thought that it was going to be a slightly less than average day of 55 miles. It turned out to be 33 miles and I don't know what shocked me more. The realisation of the smaller distance, or the relative freshness of my legs. Either way, what ended up happening was me enjoying an afternoon of IPL madness. Two games of worth and two games of pure joy for me as even though I needed a particular team to win the second game (yes, for a strange reason I have started to support a team in the IPL with a great passion beyond explanation) and they didn't, I was able to watch the defeat- this alone was pure joy.

I also discovered one other thing, that this challenge has left me more tired than I might have thought. I arrived at the guesthouse and after having got something for lunch, thought it would be a good idea to watch the cricket from the bed. 30 mins later I woke up to a text asking me what my prediction was for the result (thanks Rid, you meant that I actually saw the end of the game) and hey presto, can't remember whether or not I predicted correctly!

Perhaps I should actually rename this challenge: Cycle IPL. Hmm, not sure quite what ring that has to it...