Head for the Highlands

This blog follows our group who are planning to cycle from Lands End to John O'Groats in June 2010.. From conception through training, to completion...

Our chosen charity is Help for Heroes... a link to our donation website appears above...

Saturday 17 April 2010

Day 1 of the Isle of Wight complete

Terry Matt Foz & Simon caught the early train down and boat to Ryde to stay with Peter and ride the island...

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First thing was a photo shoot with the local paper which saw 5 middle aged blocks give their first outing to our Help for Heroes shirts..


We then set off from Ryde for 67 miles with 4000' of ascent ... Simon threw his new bike at the problem... Peter threw himself at the floor at one point with a stationary cleet hiccup! Alas no photos .



Off into Isle of Wight radio where Peter "too smooth" Baker and Simon "nice shoes" Ballard charmed the listeners with news of our ride..















Back to Peter's where a bit of energetic cool down and stretching was led by Terry...

Matt and Foz have issues...

Not with each other, just their bikes... Sounds like Matt has bearing problems ...

Off out for Fish & Chips as we reckon we have burnt 6500 calories !

1 comment:

  1. Has no one ever told you you're suppose to hold your gut in when you have your picture taken in lycra, but at your age you probably are!! Hahaha!!
    Best of luck,
    Dan Mendoza

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