Day 2 - Slough to Reading

Not such an early start today although we hit the trail at 0800

Neil (our support crew), Rachel, Scott and I at Slough

The route took us down through Eton and past the famous school

Eton

From there we joined our old friend the Thames Path again.  Pleasant running by the river, it wasn't long until we reached Maidenhead.

We met Neil just past Maidenhead at about the 11 mile mark.  He'd brought us a veritable smorgasbord of goodies which went down very well at this point

Refuelled we pressed on along the Thames Path.  It was at this point we came up with the idea of a where's the nearest loo app.  Obviously the idea for this was spurred by the need of one of the team to answer a call of nature and not a loo in sight.

Diversion around a building site

It was just after the diversion that Rachel started to feel poorly so we stopped by the river for 20 minutes while she ate some food, then carried on walking steadily - any progress being better than no progress - and hoping that she would soon recover.

2 hours later, and with us still walking, we were caught up by Jez who is a much faster runner and had taken the luxury of catching up on a couple of You Tube videos before leaving Slough

River Thames

Another hour later and we found these characters - I think we all felt a bit like they looked

Shortly after this we met Neil for the second time just north of Henley on Thames and re-stocked on water and boiled potatoes for the last 10 miles into Reading.  Rachel decided to keep on walking while Jez, Scott and I ran on ahead.

It's been a challenging day as we've been on our feet for 9 hours.  Time now for more food and another early night.  Tomorrow is the longest day at 47 miles and I don't think any of us are feeling that confident about it.

Today's stats: Total Distance:  35 miles. (63.4 miles from Westminster)
Total ascent:  165 metres 

19/09/17 - edited to correct image orientations