Bring It On!

Only 4 weeks to go until the off. I make that 28 days, or 672 hours, or 40320 minutes or even 2,419,200 seconds (do you think I have a little too much time on my hands?

As far as the training goes it’s great! I’m really getting to grips with it. Two weeks ago I did a total of 152 miles!! Very satisfying!! One of the rides was with Em, Grant & his mate Malcolm. It was weird going out with someone else! I’m so used to training solo now. Anyway we had a great ride. We stopped at this lovely little place called Bluebells Café at Marsworth, Nr Aylesbury. There was a very inviting stream running in front of it. I was sorely tempted to get my shoes & socks off and throw myself in it! We had a pot of tea made with ‘real’ tea (very civilized), a can of coke and a large piece of carrot cake. I’ll tell you something, it was extremely difficult to get back on the bike after that lot! I don’t know how Em & Grant do it? I don’t stop normally when I’m on a longer than average ride. Or if I do it’s just to stretch my back & legs, have a drink and then I get going again. I felt like a real blob, what with tea, cake & coke all sloshing around on top of the litre of energy drink I’d consumed already during our ride!! Nice mixture! We did a total of just over 50 miles which was great. It was bloody warm too. In fact, apart from my ’50 chuffing miles’ the other month, I reckon this was the warmest I’ve ridden in. All I can say is ‘Bring it on’!