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!!