To avoid just spamming you all about my forthcoming bike ride, I have set up a temporary blog on Wordpress to write about The Race Against Time:

http://tinyurl.com/IHTRATBLOG

Please have a look and tell me what you think.

Cheers,

Iain

Was attempting to train this evening on the turbo, another (simulated) shot at Alpe d'Huez - only somewhere shortly after hairpin six (out of 21), the trainer died again ( Read more... )

Been rubbish about updating recently, this is mostly because all of my efforts have been focussed on training and raising funds for The Race Against Time (TRAT) in late June and then the Marmotte a week later ( Read more... )

Day three started with being woken by a thunderstorm which has come and gone all day (as of after 7.30pm local time ( Read more... )

Day two of preparations were I'm sure helped by the Salade Nicoise and Filet Roquefort of the previous evening ( Read more... )

I flew out yesterday to Grenoble (stupidly early) and was enjoying the flight until the descent when I started experiencing prickling, then stabbing pains in my forehead. The pain didn't subside until after landing (crap, I'm even at rubbish in descending in airplanes!) I had the same problem when flying last year but had forgotten about it ( Read more... )

I did something moderately unusual last week - I was involved in the filming of a new BBC ident segment ( Read more... )

After a memorable night of music, conversation, food and drink, I awoke to see the welcome sight of blue skies out of the bedroom window ( Read more... )

Day seven was one of those days that should have been relatively easy - leaving Lancaster in the late morning, I was hoping for an easyish run to Altrincham (where I would be staying with Bryony's sister Beth and her partner Andy ( Read more... )

Day six loomed big and scarily on my personal horizon - in theory this would have been the longest day at 124 miles ( Read more... )