It’s been a day or two since my last post so I thought I would update you on my training progress thus far. I’ve still not yet conquered that ‘big’ distance and am only really getting 20 miles a day on the saddle. As I mentioned in my last post I have taken up running to boost my training efforts. On Monday I did 3.7miles and last night 2.7 so that is going well though it does make me even more tired in the evenings. One perhaps expected side affect of all this exercise is my waist line, I’m starting to loose some weight. Normally I wouldn’t be concerned, I’d probably be happy but several pairs of Jeans and cycling shorts now don’t fit particularly well. I’ve only lost about half a stone so far which isn’t huge but you know what, I rather miss that extra padding. I’ve still been eating plenty probably more so than I did before but I’ve now started to increase the amount of carbs that I eat so last night made a large tuna pasta salad with lots of extra cheese.