Background
Having been brought up in Maghull, Merseyside, a cycle or walk down the Leeds-Liverpool canal during childhood was fairly commonplace and no doubt at a young age I wondered if you could make it all the way to the 'other end'. Fast-forward to now and I currently live at the other end, Leeds, whereas my old school friend and companion for this trip, Rob Ambrose, calls Birmingham home.
It was he who suggested a challenge to cycle the full length of the canal – 127.25 miles – and found a great website, Towpath Treks, charting all manner of useful pieces of information that indicated it could be done. The seed was sown…
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