I’m cycling around Ireland! In this video I’m cycling from Carrick-on-Shannon county Leitrim to Mullingar county Westmeath via Cloondara, Longford and Abbeyshrule on the Royal Canal Way. You can read more about me, my cycling training and much more on my blog: www.officeworkerhealth.com
Just cross the bridge coming out a carrick-on-shannon I already got a signpost saying welcome to roscommon didn’t think it was that close to Carrick so across the river shannon probably following the Shannon from fight admits today heading down towards Clun Darin lumford where the Royal Canal meets the Shannon actually so they have
Left the coast behind when i’m following bodies of water again today hopefully there’s no water from the rain gonna win there on towards Longford lovely cycle so far this morning really quiet country roads apparently any traffic at all it’s just perfect and the weather is lily I get the pass through cool little
Villages like this kilmore county roscommon with a cool attached house behind me they’re really pretty little town really well maintained on towards county Longford passing through lovely quiet roads and towns and roscommon and I’ve come across like has to be a Shannon crossing here garnet doe says on
The sign post nice bottom or you’re both must put that on my to-do list that you buy a boat so I can more it here and the ignoring spots available oh this stink silage around here make you weep after such a smooth start to the day a potential nightmare situation is
Developing one of the clip I’m one of my panniers this co-op so one back pannier bag is hanging by a thread and about a hundred meters after it discovered this and little bit of a past job Google Maps has sent me on this bloody truck in the
Middle of a bug bumpy as hell exactly what the paneer bag didn’t need I need a bloody smooth Road no 4k down on this bloody truck even the tractor would struggle on this thing so I don’t see the end in slice need to get back onto a
Main some kind of a road anyway smooth road I’m trying to sort out this bloody pannier found a bit of Road after 5k on that porch rocky patch job don’t wanna panera house here comes the rain mmm there’s a Shannon river behind me through slide here that’s the locker
Number 46 on the Royal Canal so the last lock are the first lock really from my perspective because I’m going this way i’m heading towards dublin let’s clean dara village behind me where the rock and I’ll terminates and meets with the Shannon I’m heading towards dogging
Where the canal meet with the Liffey at Spencer duck I countdown the locks till I get the double well I only went and managed to take a wrong turn on the canal there’s a spore around Longford and I talked that into the town then a zigzag back and forth on that spore true
To town ended up in a bit of a world tour of Langford checked out a few towns well I’m still a long way from mullingar i’m aiming for mullingar but at least i’m back on the canal here and i’ll be shrill so I’m gonna be late into
Mullingar that’s if I can even get there and third County Westmeath 14 kilometers inside of Mullingar pastor lock number 33 coming down i started luck 46 bunker town called tiny town cavalli car using was tired this afternoon need some inspiration some motivation where’s Joe Brawley when you need them kilometer
Head of my gosh this is one tired cyclist rocking over but I’ve done at least 200 kilometers today shower food rest that’s what I need in that order Lisa Pott has been great since I got to Westmead and so of this the signposts so well done west meade county council on
Waterways ireland on that one I’ve gotta need some rest onwards towards dublin tomorrow