( As an aside it does occur to me, am I in danger of not making 80 years if my allotted total cycling distance is fixed and I am exceeding my annual target :-() )
Last year was dominated by preparing, competing in, and completing the inaugural London 100 and I have to confess that I really enjoyed following a structured daily training plan and pushing myself to new limits.
So this year I have decided on another challenge but it will be far less intensive than last year's effort.
Since reading about the adventures that people have had when touring I have decided to have a go myself. This year's challenge will be to ride Coast to Coast across Britain by the Reivers Route, a distance of about 280km. This time though I am doing it for me and not for any charity.
For the last few years I have also managed to find a cycling contact in a different part of the country and then persuade them to take me on a leisurely ride of about 100 km to explore their homeland. With luck I hope to do this again this coming year.
And so today I have been cleaning and maintaining my Mercian stable in readiness for my cycling adventures in 2014
I do hope that your Reivers Route disciple, when you find him, doesn't try to kill you, setting you back several weeks. I hear that's what happened on the deceptively harsh slopes of Rutland last year...
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