Sunday 5th June

Two weeks today – Sunday 19th June – is the first day of cycling on my trip and today I went out for my final club ride prior to the trip. Fabulous ride with ARCC (Amersham Road Cycling Club – www.amershamrcc.com ) from Great Missenden out to Sonning...

2 weeks to go….

Spoke to the organisers last night and there are 37 of us making the entire coast to coast trip. Very exciting as it becomes less theoretical and more real. There folks from Israel, Germany, Holland and three Australians on the trip. Weather still not good in Suffolk...

Where is it more windy than Lanzarote?

Well on Bank Holiday Monday it’s more windy here in Suffolk!! Spending a few days near Southwold and enjoying cycling in a very different environment to home in the Chiltern Hills. Still working out new routes but aside from the A12 the roads are pretty quiet...

Update – 24th May

On our last full day at Club La Santa we were up in good time for morning gymnastics and then managed to keep up with the run leader on the daily 3Km run. Our reward was fresh bread and croissant for breakfast – do we know how to live or what!? I went out...

CLS – another day in paradise

The wind is still the main topic of conversation here at the moment – not its because of how it continues to affect cyclists and tennis players but because the Lanzarote Ironman is this Saturday and almost 1800 competitors will have to cope with this unusual...