You lot might get a bit damp tonight!
If I really wanted to I could make it out tonight due to a change of plan but I can't be arsed. I have been looking in some detail at the PBP qualifiers and yesterday entered all of Tomsk's SR rides, the first being the Horsepower 200 on 7th March. The remaining rides come thick and fast up to 23rd May. Then there's the challenge of maintaining fitness (*) until 12th August when we set off for a ferry port to begin the ride to Paris.
So, its clear to me that I'm going to have to start getting the miles in from January onwards, which of course will probably coincide with some truly shite weather. Therefore, to make sure I'm raring to go in the New Year I might take it easy for the remainder of the 2014 - but then again I might not
(*) I have been giving this some thought as well and ran a plan past The Current Mrs R yesterday evening. Perhaps every 2 or 3 weeks I'm thinking of setting off at about 7pm on a Friday evening and aim to get back by 11am on Saturday morning for a couple of hours in bed then continue with our normal weekend. This should mean I can get c200k under me wheels and not completely bugger the family weekend. There might even be the chance to snuggle up under a hedge in my bivvy bag and even tick off a few outlying Good Beer Guide pubs by sinking a cheeky pint around closing time. I wasn't planning on doing these rides as audaxes, I just want to keep the
miles kilometres rolling in plus have a bit of fun in the process.
Of course some company would be lovely. Routes could be craftily constructed to pick folks up along the way or meet at some point. NB: these overnight rides will be in addition to my normal routine of getting out mid-week and at the weekend for a 50 to 100k ride.
Any thoughts?