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This is a start of day three. It's about half past six in the morning.

And I was originally intending.

Staying for breakfast at 7 o'clock and leaving about half past 7.

But to be frank, I'm too anxious.

Well, anxious, nervous. Don't know.

When we put this itinerary together

it was day three that was worrying me

because this is the one that finishes

going up the side of Loch Lomond

this is actually the hardest part of the route

I think

and then I'm supposed to make

another six and a half miles

on the other side of the lock more or less

up to Cray and Lack.

Now, much as I might question my ability to do that, and probably rightly so, I was sitting in the bar last night.

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