British Isles 5 Challenge: Day 2 Highlights

Join Matt and Rhiannon as they make the 123-mile cycle from Newcastle West to Mullingar.

Check out the drama in Rathkeale and Tullamore, as well as where they ate in Annacotty. Also check out that hotel 🤩

This was a long long day!!

I’ve just had my first bit of aggression day two of the actual Journey going to vasiline my ass up ready to go um and then we got a long long day today up towards Mullingar first stop Limer um never been there before so we went kind of round it on the way down here so that’s going to be exciting but um yeah legs are saw [Music] so we’re here in rill and uh I’ve just had my first bit of aggression um c a black BMW with three young Lads still looking baked in it um started shouting homophobic abuse at me uh for wearing pink uh pineapple shorts two things one that doesn’t offend me and two I’m straight so cool but this is exactly why we need to be raising money for mental health because when people are going around doing things like that um you know no wonder people are getting poor mental health you know the saw it all the guys inside the road saw it and it’s just unacceptable it’s just it’s just not necessarily [Music] right so we’re here at the top house in anakot um we cycled about 55 km today we got 143 to go so so a long way to go bike’s chilling uh time for some food and some editing so yeah CH me Slater so we’ve hit another County Line and we’ve just crossed over into a different one I don’t know what one but um yeah County Tipper we’ve completed it all uh onwards we go to bur next right I got my legs up cuz they are absolutely battered um read the most wild last 41k so we were going through tore and I don’t know what happened um Rel lost connection to her Maps couldn’t re-engage it we lost each other um and then signal came back we had a system working where um we both apparently had the same map setup so um we would give each other uh or she would text me and say the the rough sort of area she was in and then the number which would resemble on my map how many kilometers to the destination it was and she text me since stup at 41 I assumed it was uh sort of texting error and she me 31 so I flew through 31 about 10 minutes 15 minutes later cuz she had nowhere to stop she zoomed ahead um and I thought this is really weird anyway it transpired and once we shed our location we was so far away from each other it was Unreal um and we had light Falling Away we had that my battery ding um and it was just really awkward to try and locate each other anyway you couldn’t write it my battery went down to 1% we finally located each other 9 miles out 9 km sorry outside of Mullingar um so i’ soloed from 41 to 9 UM with no drink no supplies no nothing basically I was and um my phone died as I went to put the cable in it I was like oh um but yeah we made it here this hotel is insane the gravel arms really really nice um and yeah quite quite frankly I just need to stretch my legs kind of bath and yeah time to time to hit the hair I think end of the second day of the challenge I am um what a brutal day that was everything that could have gone wrong kind of did obviously um with the kids this morning causing problem um and then the road closure and then we had um having to make a route then obviously the Fiasco that happened at the end of the day it’s an absolutely mental day um so that’s uh yeah I’m glad that one’s put the bed now and uh tomorrow we cross the border into the North and get set for our second mountain time so I’m going to head to bed now so you guys are going to have to leave good night good night see you all tomorrow