After 8 weeks of serious cold i am have started something approaching training. With about 3 months to go until our start date, some degree of fitness may be possible. However when we decided on this ride, i hadn't planned on my wife getting pregnant (hurrah) with our second baby quite as quickly as she did. So fitting in the required riding is going to be harder than first planned. This clearly destoys all the myths about sitting on saddles for a long time not being a good idea. My training will revolve around some running, gym work and riding at any oppotunity i get, usually 7am in the morning before work, (not overly recommended) lots of turbo training, some mountain biking and hopefully some long rides at weekends. If you happen to catch me out on my bike, somewhere around Exeter on a Specialized Tri Cross Comp, say hello. And give us your money!!
Tuesday 26 February 2008
Sunday 24 February 2008
We get a plug on Mike Bennett's Hall Of Mirrors Podcast
Mike Bennett author of the fantastic Podcast Novel "One Among The Sleepless" and short story collection "The Hall Of Mirrors" gave us a much appreciated plug on the latest episode his podcast, Hall of Mirrors 12. Do yourself a favour and check out these fantastic free audio stories. You can subscribe to his podcasts or just download the episodes from links here. Or just click on the pics to be whisked away to the podcast of your choice.
Friday 1 February 2008
Extra Wheel trailer In Action
Looks like we will opt for a really cool Extra Wheel trailer between us to carry all our kit. As we will be unsupported it need to carry the tent and lots of chamois cream!
Planning Stages
At the moment we are finalizing the route for our ride and getting our equipment together. For various reasons we are both going to use cyclo cross bikes.
Dave is going to be riding a Specialized supplied by Richards Bikes in Exeter. Nick will be riding a Focus supplied by Wiggle.
