Bairdy - I'm approaching the BCM having never really ridden over 210km previously. I've also met a number of people who are doing the same, so there will be a quite a number of people in the same boat. Also, I have a shoddy neck which may rear its ugly head on anything over 300 and be the main limiting factor to the completion of the BCM (unless I can get my hands on a Penny Farthing).
I suppose there are three ways this ride will end - I start and complete it, I start and drop out, or simply don't start at all - certainly the last option is the one that I most want to avoid.
What is the 300 and 400 that you were planning to do?
O.K. I've done 7 x 200k's since October.
The plan was to do Honiton Old Roads 300 in May, Avalon Sunrise 400 in June, Cambrian 600 July and BCM next year.
Fitness wise I've no worries but I need to drop about 8kg's and get a triple to make it less like Hell.
Injuries wise, dodgy knee, which is still healing, bad lower back, which seems to be less of an issue on my latter 200k's
and a bad neck after so many K's.
I don't expect to be pain free though......does anybody riding Audax events?
I don't really want to go into the BCM unprepared and have a bad experience and I think May might just be a bit too soon for me.
On top of that I'm off to France for 10 days cycling a week later with the Missus (she might want me to do BCM to bring me down to her pace in France
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