Bluefin Liverpool to Kew Cycle 2008 by bluefinbikeride

Above is a self-updating weather forecast for the bike ride! Hope it changes from the 5 days of rain I'm seeing today (17th April)!

 I can't believe there's only 6 weeks to go!

After 3 weeks of rest (sick, holiday and work) I restarted my training last week and I didn't do too bad, 5 days riding in a row (...riding the bike, that is)

I used the weekend to rest my legs and hopefully I can make it another 5 of 5 this week although the weather is not very promissing: grey sky today and rains forecasted for the week... I suppose I should start training on the rain and stop being so naive to think we'll be lucky with the weather in May.

I want to start thinking in training longer rides, but I'll stick to the 15-20 kms a day program during the week.

Keep on training amigos! - Gab

Oops! forgot to add my name to the last post. It was from Peter.

Cheers

All this technology frightens me to death - at my age I don't really want to know what my heart is doing apart from beating often enough to keep me alive!

My carb loading this week consisted of two lots of fish and chips.

However, I have been managing two trips a week to the office for the past three weeks (44 mile round trip, and the odd 20 miler at the weekend).

I've just replaced my razor blade standard trek saddle for a very old fashioned Brooks B17 (first designed in 1917 - with little change since then) at the recommendation of cycling friends, and it has transformed the nether region area already. It is completely comfortable and produces no discomfort whatsoever. Why change something that works so well?

Hope to up my mileage over the next few weeks and quite frankly am aiming just to be able to keep up and complete the ride in one piece.