Excited or concerned??

Well, with less than a week to go now, I am now officially petrified / excited / nervous / daunted. Just returned from the riders briefing session at Aedas and everyone looks a lot leaner and meaner than me. (They are also much shorter and weedier - Ed)

As well as our shirts (see below) we were given the “ride booklet”, which sets out 3 days in a row of over 200 miles. I am really hoping this is a typo or someone pressed the wrong button when converting kms to miles but I fear it might not be.

On the plus side, training has been going reasonably well although I am now very very bored on sitting in my garage on the turbo trainer (a running machine for a bike for those not in the know – I wish I was one of you).

But  the most positive news today was we have broken through the £4,000 barrier in our fund raising!! This is really good news and I love reading the good luck messages as well as the rather nice feeling that the saddle sores and frozen bits will mean that some of the kids Coram supports will be getting a better life.

Will be in touch again soon!!

Luds

It's getting a bit too close!!

What has 75 heads, travels at around 14 mph and will smell much better on 7^th March?....... the Cycle to Cannes 2012!

So Andrew was out training in minus 7°C, what a trooper!

I decided that snowy Blighty was no place for clocking up the miles and have headed off to Fuerteventura for warm weather training! However, a better description might be “not so cold” weather training.

The Rider Briefing is on 22 Feb and  I assume this is the one where they tell us that whilst drugs may have been banned in the TDF it will be OK for us! I cant see any other way of getting through the pain. I am part way through a book about Marco Pantani so I might pick up some tips!

Good news – the wind in France can’t be as bad as Fuerteventura but then there is clue in the name of the island!

Bad news – the weather in France will be much, much colder!

Good news – I completed three rides last week of the same length as a C2C stage.

Bad news – we have to complete six stages in a row!

Good news – I will be using my own bike for the C2C rather than a short frame, hire bike

Bad news – its only nine days before we start!

Wish us luck.

Neil 

Opening blog

We may be new to this blog lark so bear with us.

Why have we signed up to do this year’s Cycle to Cannes? I have wanted to do it for several years but not found the time and I managed to bully Andrew Ludiman into it over a beer. It will be great exercise, camaraderie and more importantly it raises a lot of money for good charities. As it stands today Andrew and I have nearly £3,000 pledged towards our target of £6,000. If you have given, many thanks.

We are planning to blog/video diary the event so do watch this space. Further blogs will follow including one from the poor suffering wives!

Neil and Andrew