Thankfully not much on me, but others in the group got quite a bit wetter at times. Today was another of those days which could have gone either way with the wind – in the end we got ‘not as…
The most interesting thing in town and stage five
The most interesting thing in town…? Us…! Xianghaungyi is a pretty small city, and the clearly don’t see a lot of westerners – certainly not arriving 30 at a time and wandering round their streets in a mix of cycling…
Stage four
Today was one of the days that I’ve been worrying about because it was down to be 164km, and there are four further days all of +/- 120km before we get another rest day. As it’s turned out, it wasn’t…
Stage three
Today was always going to be a short day so we had the luxury of a ‘late’ start – with rider meeting and breakfast at 0700. It also meant that there was plenty of time for sightseeing along the way.…
I need to learn to nap
Not a lot happened yesterday…! I tried to sleep in, but that didn’t work out so well – particularly since breakfast ended at the hotel at 0900. So then it was time for a look round town. Wandered down to…
Stage two
I realised that calling them ‘day one’ and ‘day two’ was going to get confusing because tomorrow is a day, but not a stage as it’s a rest day – so, today was stage 2 and day 2…! Here are…
And just like that – day one done
For each day’s ride we get ‘navigation notes’ which run through proceedings for the day. Coupled with these the crew ‘mark’ the route with orange streamer tape (I’ll take a photo of some tomorrow) so that we can find our…
It’s almost now…!
We had our first rider meeting this morning where we got to meet the crew and the other riders who will be starting from Beijing tomorrow morning. It’s quite a big group of us; five crew, a local ‘fixer’ (Jimmy…
Plans and preparations
Plans and preparations are decided in vain Think we’ve seen enough now Hope and validation are united again Bernard Fanning – Hope & Validation It hardly seems like yesterday that I was in Spain setting this blog up, and…