Cotswolds here we come......,

I'm off to work to do a little night shift, hopefully it will go quickly and not be too hectic but in this line of work you never know! Tomorrow after a quick sleep it'll be a case of packing, putting on the bike rack, making sure I've got everything and heading off for the 3 hour drive. Bound to forget something, especially after a night shift your not exactly with it when you first wake up! We've (well Steve actually) have planned two 70 milers, the weather looks ok but we'll probably get a few showers. We've been so lucky with the weather during our training I don't know how we'll react to a bit of a wet one. Over 15 yeas ago I completed my only other foray into long distance cycling. I did a bike ride for the National Deaf Children's Society. We flew out to Jordan and rode from the capital Amman to the Red Sea port of Aqaba. It was a fantastic experience riding on and off road through the deserts of Lawrence of Arabia, seeing the Nabetean city of Petra and meeting some fantastic people. The reason I bring that up now is that I went out to the Jordanian desert expecting a hot sunny experience but we were confronted by all sorts of weather, wind, rain and even snow so, even though we've had great training weather so far, 'm sure we'll encounter all sorts on the 12 days we come down the British Isles and I'm ready for anything - Bert..... I need to borrow those waterproof cycling shoes sharpish!!!! More tomorrow.... Work calls!