Just seen him at Dunston a couple of hundred metres from J13 on the M6 at 21.30. I make that he is approximately 42 minutes ahead of schedule: that's some going!
He has been lucky with the weather as there was almost no wind at all, unlike when I went out for my post work, pre chip ride earlier: it was blowing quite strongly from the north.
Good luck for the rest of the ride. Its quite an undertaking over 10 days, let alone in less than a couple!
Not a great photo...sorry
2018-06-15_10-02-38 by
essexian, on Flickr