Call that Training?!

Oh dear, we're just not trying anymore. My training plan had me down for 200-odd miles last week. Instead, both Andy and I cycled to Bristol (35 miles for me, 25 at best for Andy), and drank Cider. I got the train home, Andy stayed in a hotel.

I'm getting quite excited about this now though - in 3 weeks time we'll be starting Day 2, and in 5 weeks time I'll be back at work wondering what all the fuss was about......

Only 3 weeks to go.....!

Just realised this weekend that it is only 3 weeks to go till we set off!!!!!!!!!!

Training not going so well at the moment. After the encouraging trip to Christchurch I've only managed to fit in a couple of training sessions at weekends, training during the week has gone out the window at the moment, but plan to get that back on course this week. More out of panic after realising that it is not long to go than anything else.

Good news is that I do now have my new bike (hurrah), taking a bit of getting used to but all is good, the bad news now is that I can't use the excuse of the mountain bike for being slow anymore. Will have to think up something new.

Impressed with Andy's 1000 miles, I think I'm on about 600 at the moment which is not too shabby since middle of March, and I'm hoping that means I've brunt of 36,000 calories, although it doesn't feel like it at the moment!

Update

Andy and I went for a 125 mile round trip to Christchurch this weekend - very hot, not very hilly, and Andy was on a mountain bike with a wobbly front. Yep, he's quicker than me! (although I did have the slight disadvantage of pulling the trailer).

Three bits of encouraging news;

a) we managed to get on the bikes for two days running
b) we averaged 13 mph - most respectable
c) I've clocked up 1000 training miles (and have apparantly burnt a whopping 60,000 calories in the process). Now I just have to do that again, but in 2 weeks rather than 4 months....

Route Version 2

Due to the problems with the trains (see previous posts), we've effectively lost a cycling day, so we need to squeeze a few more miles into each day. This means a change in route details, as follows;

Sat 19th May - Bristol TM - Thurso - John O'Groats (Youth Hostel)
Sun 20th May - J O'G - Crask (B&B)
Mon 21st May - Crask - Loch Ness (Youth Hostel)
Tue 22nd May - Loch Ness - Glencoe (Youth Hostel)
Wed 23rd May - Glencoe - Catacol (B&B)
Thu 24th May - Catacol - Kendoon (Youth Hostel)
Fri 25th May - Kendoon - Carlisle (B&B)
Sat 26th May - Carlisle - Slaidburn (Youth Hostel)
Sun 27th May - Slaidburn - Crewe (B&B)
Mon 28th May - Crewe - Leominster (Youth Hostel)
Tue 29th May - Leominster - Bath
Wed 30th May - Bath - Exford (Youth Hostel)
Thu 31st May - Exford - Tintagel (Youth Hostel)
Fri 1st June - Tintagel - Penzance (Youth Hostel)
Sat 2nd June - Penzance YHA - Lands End

Total 1,066 miles....

Christchurch here we come

The training's taken a bit of a back seat of late. Maybe it's becuase Andy's on board and I know he's playing "catch up" in the training, but I'm definately not putting the miles in like I probably should be!

This weekend will be interesting - a trip to Christchurch - 60 miles each way. The bike trailer will be loaded up, so it should be the closest training we've had yet to the real thing. Last I heard, Andy's new bike still hadn't arrived, so he could be struggling all the way on his mountain bike....nutter.

Anyway, I note that Andy's concerned about the hill Profiles - I assume he may be refering to Day 7 - I knew I shouldn't have shown him.....