Day 3 of Cycle Poland began easily enough, before James decided to put the hammer down and leave us all for dust after about 5km. Some of us tried to follow, and the rest of the morning was characterised by exhaustingly trying to keep people's wheels while the cheeky types attacked the main group on the ascents. Fortunately, by the time we reached Czestochowa for our hospice visit of the day,  things had settled down as the average speed slowed considerably as we incompetently tried to reach our interim destination. The hospice visit itself was an illuminating insight into the daily work of staff and volunteers and the challenges they face, as we were taken on a tour of the residential care wards.

The hospice staff kindly took us to see the sights of Czestochowa including the finish line of a stage of this year's Tour de Pologne and a big monastery (while the more media friendly of us dealt with various press engagements), before we continued our 57km run in to Dobroszyce. The evening ended with some friendly exchanges with our Polish colleagues on the relative merits of putting peas on pizza.  

- Chris