Helpful Training Tip

If you are training for a challenge but will have a car or van following you carrying all your equipment then don't read any further. But if like us you are going to be carrying everything yourself, then it's a good idea to start training a couple of months before with your bike loaded with the equivalent weight to what you will be carrying during the challenge. You will find that it handles completely different, especially on hills.
We find that a bottle of Tesco's Lime & Lemon filled with water and placed in each pannier gives a similar weight to what we will be carrying (5 kilo's in each rear pannier).
So for the next 9 weeks the training is going to get harder.
Keith

cheshire cat

Just come back from a great day out riding the cheshire cat with keith and matt. a tough day of hills but the weather made up for it. dave

the final piece of the jigsaw

Finally managed to book the train tickets today. We will now be able to get home after climbing ben nevis to complete the challenge.

time in the saddle

Just finished a tough spinning session ready for a 75 mile ride on sunday bring on the cheshire cat! Dave.

The Picture is in the Lancashire Evening Post

The picture was in the L.E.P. last night (Mon 12th) nice picture, just a pity that they didn't put any other details about the challenge in the paper.

A grand weekend

On Saturday all 3 of us had some photographs taken which will appear in the local lep shortly. We then had a great 4 hour ride with half of it riding into the wind! Great ride with brilliant company. 12 weeks until the big challenge as well. Exciting times :~>

Preview of the challenge "T" Shirt design

"T" Shirt design by Karen (Dave's Wife)

How do you carry your walking boots 500 miles on the bike

In a boot bag - "simple"

Keep calm, don't panic

I've just noticed that there is now only 92 days left until the start of the challenge. Time for some serious training. Keith