A quick note about progress

The more perceptive of you will have noticed that there is a lack of progress updates today. However, you mustn't take this as an indication of a lack of progress.

In fact, all teams are doing well. Tremendously well, in fact. So well that there is literally no time for the considered 'sitting down and writing about it' that we'd normally need. We're moving through the country at an unbelievable rate of knots. I'm writing this at a Travelodge in Dumbarton, north of Glasgow, on Saturday evening. My day started at 1.30am today in South Wales.

The original plan would have had us at Carlisle at this point, maybe breaching the Scottish border in the early hours of Sunday morning. We're a good seven or eight hours ahead of our original schedule. There are some scarily quick people on bikes. Whether the thought of a pint at John O'Groats is helping to concentrate a few minds, I'll leave you to guess.

But to sum up, we're doing well. And if you'd like to show your appreciation, you know what to do.