26-07-12, 10:19 PM
Personally I would get off the M5 motorway after Bristol and take the old Seven crossing M48 to Chepstow. Then Monmouth, Hereford, and A49, to rejoin the motorway south of Warrington. It's the same distance but you swap 140 miles of motorway for nice A and B roads. It will take a bit longer but cuts out some of the motorway boredom and because your moving about on the bike more may help the physical fatigue. I do the run from Lancashire to near Weston-Super-Mare fairly regularly and wouldn't dream of doing it all the way on the M6-M5.