Oh my God!

Oh my God! The Tour de Force people have interviewed some of the riders from last years Tour de France asking them what they think of some relatively ordinary (or alternatively, completely bonkers) Brits doing the ride with the following responses:-
"Yeah, I've heard there is one really old guy doing it." - that's Nick!!!
"We'll hunt them down like a pack of dogs." The Tour de Force are setting off 1 week before the actual Tour de France so I suppose there is a chance they could catch them up!
French accent for this one "You Brits, first you run zee marathons and then you start Triathlon and zen you come over 'ere and think you can do our ride." True, so what!
Our hero Bradley said in a rather laid back away "Yeah, well they probably voted for me to win Sportsman of the Year so good luck to 'em!" Thank you Bradley for that vote of confidence.
Oh dear, I'm getting worried now especially after that first comment, however I have been reassured to hear that the oldest rider last year was 67. Nick didn't say he survived it though!

From your own correspondent  Michelle

A mysterious parcel arrived on Friday........

Things are looking really good, the training is now fully underway and is probably about as intense as it is likely to get. Matt has had 2 weeks holiday and has really been putting the turbo-trainer through its paces during the day. Nick gives it a hammering before or after work. We really should hook this thing up to the national grid. Perhaps the government should offer free turbo-generators to those with a dangerously high BMI and pay them a feed-in tariff just as they do with solar panels? Anyway about 8-10 hours of training per rider has actually happened for each of the last 2 weeks and it will be interesting to see if the training frenzy continues. Nick was up at 5:30 last Tuesday to do an hour or so of “power-building” before work. It didn’t appear to have done him much good though, he looked really knackered as wobbled up the drive on his way to work. 

 

Anyway on Friday he looked rather sheepish when a parcel arrived and it was quickly spirited off to the garage. He later admitted it was a “bike thong” – not a term he seemed entirely happy with, and everybody was extremely relieved to hear it was for the bike – not for him! This revolutionary device will prevent sweat which cascades off him during training from corroding his precious steed. See below a picture of bike wearing its thong in a very tidy garage.

Bike thong on bike in very tidy garage.