Day -2

My two riding chums will be pleased all our respective teams will be in the Championship next season. I had a great day out at Wembley yesterday, only thwarted by two dodgy penalty decisions.
I have the bike prep all to do today. I've been finding lots of other things to do because its been Pimms O'clock !!
As luck would have it the wind is changing direction for the West Country and we're going to have headwinds for the first few days at least.
Boooooo!

Day -7

Well, only one more day of work to go for me now before the big event next week :O)  I'm off work on Tuesday to pack in some quality time with the family before I slot in to selfish mode! I had a go at packing my bags tonight and I have no idea how Rob will manage because I have 3 times his capacity! He will argue that my 4 pairs of socks and 3 of pants is excessive, but I won't have to be widow twanky every night! I'll be cleaning and lubricating the bike over the weekend. Getting rather close now....

Day -8

Why oh why did I agree to play golf yesterday? I now have to get everything sorted in much less time. In our typical non-communicado way, Rob has set up another blog! It's www.rcm-lejog.blogspot.com . I'm off tonight to a cycle maintenance course, well better late than never!

Introduction

Hi there and welcome to my Blog.  I have set this up in an attempt to have somewhere where Family, Friends and Colleagues can read about how I and my two mates are getting on in our attempt to cycle the entire length of the British mainland,  yes the classic Lands End to John O'Groats cycle ride!

'We' are Chris, (aka Milky), Martin, and Rob,(aka Bo for some reason?!) and we all started work at around the same time together some 23 years ago now so we have plenty of previous form!

Rob and Martin did the London to Brighton ride a couple of years ago and then agreed, in a drunken haze whilst on holiday last year, that they should try LEJOG.  I found out about this at New Year (despite having been on the same holiday!).  I thought it would be a great way to get fit and give me an aim so asked to join in.

Now here we are at day -10 in the count down to the off.  Day1 will be Thursday June 2nd 2011.

Once I've learnt how to use this thing I hope to post a few pics, locations, progress stories, perhaps the odd anecdote etc. But I must first walk before I can run (or should that be ride with stabilisers before wobbling along solo?).

As is customary for these challenges, we thought we'd take the opportunity to collect for some worthy causes.  Here are the links to our just giving pages.  If you have yet to sponsor one of us then if you think we deserve the encouragement please dig deep and thanks if you do.

Milky's Berkshire MS Therapy Centre Page

Martin's Leukaemia and Lymphoma Page

Rob's Cancer Research UK Page

                                                            The three of us.

Strewth is that the time !  - I must get some shut-eye.....