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A really easy day today - a quick 25km at either end of the work day - so not much to tell about the ride.  This mornings ride statsInstead I thought I'd tell you about the other day when  I visited the Renal Unit at the Mater Dei Hospital with some fellow riders so we could learn a little more about why we’re all taking on the LifeCycle Challenge.So...

Claire and I passed like ships in the night yesterday - she headed out for a night on the town with her mates just as I got home from my evening ride, leaving me to fend for myself.  All of a sudden I felt a totally irrational sense of guilt thinking I should be doing something family related!  "Where's the catch? Am I going to get beaten senseless for not offering some kind of sacrifice?"  Apparently not!Then I had a sense of panic - "what do I do now?  Relax and...

By lunchtime yesterday I was feeling as if I hadn't slept for a week and was as weak as Alfie the kitten on the day we found him.  Despite eating a boat load of couscous and tuna, followed by a "healthy" man-size bowl of cereal for lunch, I was in the same state again after a really short 6km ride home last night.  Maybe yesterday's...

So today was going to be a big day, and this weekend is a big weekend.  Our kids fly back from the UK tonight - they've all been gone way too long and we can't wait to see them again.  I didn't really want to be out cycling for 8 hours on Sunday and miss half the day, which worked for Dan too, so we agreed to do our big ride on Saturday and leave less to do on Sunday.  We also wanted to break 200km in one ride for the first time and as a result planned to set off at 4.15am to...

The kids were due to fly in on the late flight last night so I could only assume they were all safe and soundly asleep when I got up this morning.  There were suitcases in the hall so things were looking good.  They've been gone way too long and I'm already looking ahead to the end of today's training and spending time with them all.Yesterday was a long, long day, so the plan was to do a shorter session today.  More importantly it was the second time trial today.  The idea...

Well, we're here - the final week of full training and it's another big one.  600km is the goal again this week and it's looking like even more of a challenge than usual. With the Betfair Caribbean Summer Party on Friday night and a Stag night to attend on Saturday a few of us are already scratching our heads as to how that's all going to work!  Actually the sensible ones have stopped thinking about it, written it off as impossible and are already...

Today was the last Sunday of our full training schedule and we took time out from the ride to join the first memorial ride for Cliff Micallef who was sadly killed in a hit and run accident a year ago while training for the 2009 LifeCycle Challenge.Hundreds of fellow cyclists joined his family to commemorate and celebrate Cliff and his joy of cycling by...

Quite an emotional day today...Firstly, and most importantly, it's my 1st wedding anniversary today - this time last year we were in London celebrating our wedding with close friends and family.  All I can say is that she must love me to be putting up with the disruption to a normal family life for the last 4 months!  What more could a man ask for? :)Claire's upstairs...

16 Weeks of training and this is what it all boils down to:The accountant in me can't resist good old fashioned cold hard statistics, and I just had to share them with you.  Never mind how it all felt - the pain, the highs and lows, the emotion, the excitement of beating targets, the psychological scarring - that's all for...

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