Unlike Captain Beefy (see Ian’s last post) I’m not trying to build myself up with weights etc., in fact, quite the oppposite. I reckon that if I can lose enough weight to compensate for the amount of kit, then I’ll barely notice it. Having seen the size of the tent, if I can just get down to 6 stone, I’ll have cracked it.
Swapped my chunky extreme cross country tyres for some semi- slicks in an effort to pick up speed. Not worked so far, but its probably not the tyres fault. Also took the opportunity to stick on the special self healing, puncture resistant inner tubes. You can guess what happened on my second trip out. Yes, 20 mile cycle ride, followed by a 6 mile walk home. Now got a huge blister on my right heel…..