East Midlands Airport Travelodge....around 10pm....aching legs after the first day of our 3 week tour, Nottingham University and a day of riding the rollers. The bikes are now designed to power a series of lights and the red bike powers an amp attached to an ipod so the wheels have to keep turning to keep the music going....probably kept the wheels turning for 2 hours today.
Back in the Travelodge the room is again identical if a mirror image of Nottingham. Tomorrow we set up at Loughborough Uni which is my old University....don't think i'll have much time to get over Epinal Way to Lusad though.....it's outside aswell and with the forecast of some rain it might end up being a wet day 2.
Foodwise Nottingham Uni is a winner, Quorn in a vegetable/tomato sauce with rice and Nan bread returned my lost energy for an afternoon of powering an ipod riding a static bike. Evening meal at the pub down the road from here was a standard vegetable lasagne despite four amazing sounding vegetarian meals being all off today because of delivery problems from the local greengrocer.....high hopes for Birmingham tomorrow night. In the meantime a lot of cycling on the rollers in possible inclement conditions on the grass outside Loughborough Student Union.........


Quorn meal at Nottingham Uni food court