Cycle Slam D-55

It's getting closer - 8 weeks today I'll have finished my first day - 103 miles & recuperating in the Champagne Region of France!!

Good update on Fund Raising - we had a family get together at The Farm over the weekend & I received some very generous contributions to the cause & Sam & Jack got some very generous donations to the BHF Dorset Bike Ride at the end of April - thanks Family!! - It was a cracking weekend too! I popped another email out at work today & my very generous colleagues across a number of sites have added £125 plus gift aid into the pot - so i'm edging closer to the £3k - now under £500 & that's before the Gift Aid!

Training-wize - I did the looping 10 miler last Tuesday in good time & then went out on friday afternoon, as we were away at the weekend - I did 47.5 miles & squeezed my average upto 15.6 mph - which is the best of the year so far, although still abit short of last year's efforts! Tonight I was out with Jack for our 10 miler again - I was thinking as we went round that I'll have a pint of what Jack's on, please!  He was buzzing tonight & we got our best average together and I also got my average cadence into the 90s for the first time - 94 today - thanks Jack - great stuff! As ever Tuesday night's are always rounded off by a great tea from Linsey & tonight was no exception :) !!

Although there was no training at the weekend, i did have the opportunity to pump up an air bed at my Mum's - she got it all out & I pumped away for 20 minutes, thinking that this was good exercise, but this bed should be looking a little fuller than it is; only to turn the damn thing over & find half a dozen holes in it - aargh!!

Thanks for your support everyone

Cheers

Andy