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