First port of call was Northallerton, then on to Great Ayton for lunch. That's a nice little place to stop off at for a break. After lunch I headed for Skelton, Loftus, Easington, Boulby. After passing through Boulby I knew I wasn't far away.
Now unless I'd nodded off for a couple seconds or blinked to long but I completely missed a really big sign saying Staithes industrial estate. When the penny dropped I suddenly realised I was heading into Sandsend near Whitby, so Whitby is where I ended up. After having a coffee and a look at the road map. I realised where I'd gone wrong.
I'll do that route again soon and I'll get it there next time. Setting off rom Clara's coffee shop in Whitby I headed for Robin Hood's Bay which is just south of Whitby. I got parked up in the car park at the top of Robin Hood's Bay and as I set off walking down the hill to the bottom I thought this hill isn't to bad. Having got to the shoreline and took a few photos. It's a pity the tide was in though.
It was time to set off back up the hill. On the way down I had noticed a lot of people walking back up the hill were gasping for oxygen and thought to myself their very unfit for their age.
I got 50 yards up the hill and I too started to puff, cough and wheeze. At about halfway up I thought my pounding heart was going to burst out of my chest. Stig this beats the hill going up to Lincoln Cathedral ten fold. When I finally got to the top I just managed to drag myself onto a bench and sat there till I composed myself for ten minutes. An evil thought came over me and was thinking about bringing Mike (roadrunner) here, because he has mentioned that I'm in his will.
From RHB I was going to head for Scarborough until I got a text from a friend who told me Staxton Hill was closed off, so I headed back to Whitby and went over the North York Moors to Pickering, Malton and then onto Seaways for a leg stretch. It was a perfect day for bike riding, and a good temperature too.
Here's a few photos...
