Somewhat surprisingly I managed to sleep last night – I had expected that my missing bike and bags would play on my mind and keep me awake, but thankfully that wasn’t to be. A hotel breakfast, then Adam and I…
Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to Casablanca we go!
An early flight this morning so Adam and I had stayed over in the hotel at Heathrow to avoid an 0300 start to the day which worked out well. We dropped our bags, then my bike at the over-sized luggage…
T -10 days
It’s starting to get pretty real now! In ten days time we’ll have been in Casablanca for about 6 hours, hopefully my bike will have survived the journey and will have gone back together again properly! Even more amazing, this…
T -3 months
It’s been a busy couple of months since I was last updating things here. We spent two fantastic weeks sailing on our friends Stuart and Jane’s yacht Epicurios with our friend Lynda also on board – a truly marvellous time…
T +2 years, T -5 months
This time two years ago we were in Beijing getting ready for our first day riding tomorrow. Adam and I had had an enjoyable few days being tourist, my bike was all set up, my bags were packed and I wasn’t…
T -6 months
I’ve ridden home from work this evening and this weekend I’m doing a sportive in the New Forest – 110km which will hopefully feel like old times, but I suspect given how little riding I’ve done recently won’t be quite…
One year on
There are several of you who will be very pleased to finally (one year to the day later) get confirmation that I have in fact finished riding from Beijing to Istanbul and I’m not still lost somewhere in between (I’m thinking…
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…
Christmas training – week two
Saturday (Boxing day) After a rest day yesterday I was rather hoping my arse wasn’t going to be so sore today – that would be no…! maybe tomorrow. Today’s weather was less co-operative than the last week, cooler, windier, and…