Where have all the calories gone?  Does eating early silent breakfasts take the strength from your legs?  It certainly did today.  Arising at 4.30 in the morning is not the best start to a day, unless you are a time trialer.  Charlie certainly wasn’t a racing man.  So his legs paid the price, the hills today were all twice as steep as normal, and seemingly much longer as well.  But it didn’t stifle his enjoyment.  But he did pay the price in monetary terms, the two lunches they bought came almost to the price of a mortgage, or so Charlie thought.  Their spendthrift ways led them into paying one pence each to enter the Reynard caves, and that was just the start.