ENDURANCE cyclist Mark Beaumont was Wild About Argyll and then some on day eight of his Around Britain training ride.
Mark stopped briefly in Argyll on Tuesday this week during his cycling tour around the coastline of Britain, a warm-up to his World Cycle challenge. Having started the day in Dumfries and Galloway, he entered Argyll and Bute, after a short ferry ride from Gourock, before heading west to Portavadie, over to Tarbert, across to Kilberry and then heading north again on the A83 to Oban. Along the way he passed some of Argyll’s most scenic locations which featured in his Wild About Argyll challenge last year.
Gavin Dick, chairman of Argyll and the Isles Tourism Co-operative (AITC), has been following Mark on his route tracker, and has been very impressed with the pace he has maintained since leaving London.