Hi Everyone,
I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who has supported and followed us along our way. We had a ball. It really was fantastic and I would recommend it to anyone. It was an experience of a life time and one that I will always remember.
I would like to thank all my fellow team mates for making the journey so much fun. The games and the chat were top notch, even the singing!! No, not mine obviously!!
Special thanks to Viv for helping me make up the route maps every morning. It really was like a scene from Blue Peter!! Thanks also to the boys for ensuring our bikes were road worthy every morning and for repairing any punctures that happened along the way. Special mention to Alasdair who showed us how to put a chain back on with a stick which ensured we didn’t get oil on our new cycle kit!! Viv has become the most experienced at putting chains back on, her chain came off at least 3 or 4 times every day.
A huge thanks to our support crew, who kept us going. We really couldn’t have done it without you. They really did everything for us, allowing us to concentrate on the fun bit, the cycling. In the morning we would place bets on what the guys would produce for lunch. If John L was support driver it would be sandwiches at the side of a petrol station, if it was Stuart it would be an international themed buffet lunch served on a tray. We had Indian, Italian, Japanese and a Wedding Buffet (silver cutlery supplied by John Salmons, no questions please). Bob came on board and provided real comfort food, which brought back childhood memories. His finest moment was when he brought out the Tuc biscuits followed by Soreen Malt Loaf for afters. That really was the trump card!! Half way through the trip Stuart introduced the concept of an afternoon treat, so we would spend the afternoons fantasising on what it could possibly be. Thanks guys, these things really kept us going.
I’m frightened to think how many calories we consumed along the way. Three course breakfasts, lunches and dinners, snacks of bananas, energy bars, chocolate, bags of crisps and nuts washed down with a pint when we arrived at our accommodation (yes even I had one!). On one occasion we even went to the fish and chip shop for a portion of chips each just to keep us going till dinner. I have never eaten so much before. The concerning thing is that now we’re home and not cycling I’m still hungry all the time. I brought my lunch to work this morning and had eaten it by 10am. This can’t be normal??
Anyway enough rambling on, I'd better get some work done so that I can afford to go on the next trip whatever that may be??
PS. Be Warned – We’re all still hyper after our trip and have taken around 400 photographs each on our cameras. We’ve already bored a couple of friends with our photos and stories, (it was the glazed over look in their eyes after the first hundred or so that gave it away) so we completely understand if you want to avoid us for a few weeks. We’ll surely have calmed down by then???
I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who has supported and followed us along our way. We had a ball. It really was fantastic and I would recommend it to anyone. It was an experience of a life time and one that I will always remember.
I would like to thank all my fellow team mates for making the journey so much fun. The games and the chat were top notch, even the singing!! No, not mine obviously!!
Special thanks to Viv for helping me make up the route maps every morning. It really was like a scene from Blue Peter!! Thanks also to the boys for ensuring our bikes were road worthy every morning and for repairing any punctures that happened along the way. Special mention to Alasdair who showed us how to put a chain back on with a stick which ensured we didn’t get oil on our new cycle kit!! Viv has become the most experienced at putting chains back on, her chain came off at least 3 or 4 times every day.
A huge thanks to our support crew, who kept us going. We really couldn’t have done it without you. They really did everything for us, allowing us to concentrate on the fun bit, the cycling. In the morning we would place bets on what the guys would produce for lunch. If John L was support driver it would be sandwiches at the side of a petrol station, if it was Stuart it would be an international themed buffet lunch served on a tray. We had Indian, Italian, Japanese and a Wedding Buffet (silver cutlery supplied by John Salmons, no questions please). Bob came on board and provided real comfort food, which brought back childhood memories. His finest moment was when he brought out the Tuc biscuits followed by Soreen Malt Loaf for afters. That really was the trump card!! Half way through the trip Stuart introduced the concept of an afternoon treat, so we would spend the afternoons fantasising on what it could possibly be. Thanks guys, these things really kept us going.
I’m frightened to think how many calories we consumed along the way. Three course breakfasts, lunches and dinners, snacks of bananas, energy bars, chocolate, bags of crisps and nuts washed down with a pint when we arrived at our accommodation (yes even I had one!). On one occasion we even went to the fish and chip shop for a portion of chips each just to keep us going till dinner. I have never eaten so much before. The concerning thing is that now we’re home and not cycling I’m still hungry all the time. I brought my lunch to work this morning and had eaten it by 10am. This can’t be normal??
Anyway enough rambling on, I'd better get some work done so that I can afford to go on the next trip whatever that may be??
PS. Be Warned – We’re all still hyper after our trip and have taken around 400 photographs each on our cameras. We’ve already bored a couple of friends with our photos and stories, (it was the glazed over look in their eyes after the first hundred or so that gave it away) so we completely understand if you want to avoid us for a few weeks. We’ll surely have calmed down by then???
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