Day 10 – Cycling London to Spain – Hell week kicks off with a big blunder and we meet some big fans

We’re Alex & Selena Matti. We’re cycling from London to San Sebastián in Memory of our son Otis Zev Matti.

We’ve raised nearly £34,000 for Evelina & Chestnut Tree Hospice so far – helping support families just like ours in the years to come.

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we’re Alex and Selena Matty we’re cycling all the way from London to northern Spain in memory of our son Otus Zeb Matty this is where we are right now so far we’ve cycled 572 km and we’ve got 828 remaining we’re supporting some incredible children’s charities and so far we’ve raised 34,000 in this episode we start Hell Week we meet some big fans and a planning blunder leaves us without lunch and just desperate to finish the day it is day 10.Oop double figures baby it’s the start of hell week hell week is 6 days of cycling we got 500 km is it 500 i think you mean 400 no 500 it’s 500 km in six days that can’t be right it’s true it is oh my god what the hell right so what’s our strategy um stay positive uh don’t shoot out like a bat out of hell which we were thinking about doing cuz we’ve had a rest yesterday right let’s go for it hell week begins [Music] hit the open road and with it has come a brutal headwind oh gosh whoa [Music] we are 40k in it’s going past these bad boys [Music] as an engineer you have to marvel at massive spinning things that’s the rule they’re absolutely amazing do you love fans like me no one loves fans like you [Music] oie my boy for the most part we’re pretty happy on this trip but sometimes we do just get hit with massive waves of grief just miss him so much just so much yellow around and just something about remembering that he’s our boy [Music] so hard so hard [Music] we’ve hit lunchtime over closed emos but misfits have saved our bacon haven’t they yeah they have thanks guys delish delish get rid of that right there why delish what’s wrong with delish absolutely delish guys top notch that absolutely delom so I just made a massive mistake and said to Bean there was only 3k left but there was actually only there’s 14k and it’s just really windy my back keeps spasming we’re defining a bit of a low point right now just really need some calories the tailwind went to the rescue thank you what’s happening i’m hungry i’m thirsty and I’m out of juice and I just just need this to stop just a moment where we’re head down just trying to get back that’s 7K left we made it that was really bad that’s 15 kings so hard food is essential i know that is a dumb thing to say but like I thought maybe I could just get by on a little protein bar with some sweeties just eating sausage on his own no bread just desperate for any any calories this is your fault it’s not my fault didn’t even stop to think for a second like I was just like I feel like we’ve learned some lessons today never go anywhere on the bike without planning where we stop for nibbles [Music]