A Happy New Year to all, I hope everyone had a great festive period, now comes the time for the guys to really start stepping up our training and get serious before our depart on the 25th of July, it’s only 205 (if my maths is correct) days until we leave….that’s a bit sobering after all the excess over the last week or so.

Unlike our South East Asian contingent (Chris) it is not 32C here but more like 32f!! The problem at this time of year is skinny wheels do not go together with icy roads!! Our training over the next two months will be mostly indoors either on the fixed bikes in the gym or on the turbo trainers in the garage. For those who are not familiar, a turbo trainer is a machine that you can put your bike rear wheel in and it spins on a fly wheel that you can vary the resistance of. To avoid the boredom you stick on a DVD to watch, however there is something quite weird about training really hard, sweating and generally being on the limit physically whilst laughing at Father Ted, Peter Kay or something similar!

We will be doing at least one long endurance ride on the road at the weekends and we will be updating you on miles covered and places visited. We are becoming increasingly familiar with all the back roads of Northants but as the mileage increases we will venture into Warwickshire, Beds and Leics. If you see us on the road please give us a wave or friendly toot.

Finally we will be officially launching the ride and appeal at the end of January so please keep your eye on the blog for details.

PS – Congratulations to Paul (Manning) on his MBE and also to all the members of Team GB that won awards in the New Years honours list, 2008 has been a great year for cycling lets hope 2009 is as successful.

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