Training

update 21st  July 2011

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February 2011: At 1,732ft this is higher than any point on our trip.
A good start to the training.

Training started in February 2011 and now the start is imminent and training finished we have ridden 2,600 miles, taking 220 hours (9 days & nights) and each burned 158,000 calories (600 Mars bars)!!  Much of our training is done where I live in NorthYorkshire Dales, where we are not short of hills.

After 170 miles, Fish and Chips never tasted so good 

Most of our routes are made on an ad hoc basis, but in May we rode the new 170 mile Sustrans route from Morecambe to Bridlington, taking two days rather than the expected three.

Looking remarkably fresh after 91 miles

And in mid June we took part in the Great Yorkshire Bike Ride, a mass event of over 1,000 cyclists starting in Wetherby and ending in Filey  71 miles later.  However we rode from the Sarah and Scotts home, to the start, and then from the finish to Flamborough, where we stayed the night which made our total days trip 103 miles.  The following day we rode the 74 miles back to Sarah and Scotts home.