In the begining

There is nothing better than a full english breakfast, on a sunday morning, when the kids are out of the house and you have time for the third cup of tea and a good read of the weekend papers. This was the scene in the late summer of last year when Sheridan, my wife handed me the "weekend" section of the newspapar and said."....here, this might interest you". It was a large article about the 2010 Ride Across Britain and it captured my imagination. This was going to be the first large event, sponsored by Delloitts (the large accounting firm) that echoed the hugely popular ride across America. Sure, the distances are a lot less but the US event is usually completed by relay teams of 8 people that cycle about 400 miles each and the RAB was an event that you could do solo and cycle the whole 1050 yourself.

After a quick ring around I found there were a bunch of friends and aquantainces interested and we booked our places. Just as well as the event was sold out by September 09 as more people found out about the event.

And so started the slog to prepare. I had cycled to Paris earlier that summer and so I had my taste of long distance cycling and knew that I would have to cycle through the winter to get in shape.