Monday, 31 August 2009
The bike left the shed !
Sunday, 30 August 2009
Another 50 quid in the pot !
Saturday, 29 August 2009
Rigorous daybreak training schedule....
Thursday, 27 August 2009
How small do they go ?
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
Sand Castles and Hurricane Bill !
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Look at all those pins !
Mavis Bird Pushes the fund past £500 !
With some interesting offers coming in from due west of my starting point near Beziers it's beginning to look like I wont be making any northerly headway for the first few days of my trip, instead I could be cycling along the French side of the pyrenees mountains, which would make for some great photos and scenery and on towards somewhere called Monlong in dept 65 where there's talk of a charity evening in a local bar with music and Karaoke to be put on by "movingmusic" Monte !
Also, what are Hash Harriers and where do the BBC fit in, who knows but keep watching as more detail of this not so direct route unravels !
Please keep donating too.....
Passing the hat....
With special thanks today to Sally, Annette and Wanda for your support and not least to Mr Unsworth-White for his encouraging words and of course his steady hand for fixing my heart in the first place !
Monday, 24 August 2009
A word from my surgeon...
Jonathan UNSWORTH-WHITE
Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon.
Did you know .......
The first open heart surgery was performed by Dr. Daniel Hall Williams in 1893.
Your heart beats around 100,000 times a day, that's 35 million times a year and a staggering 2.5 billion times in a lifetime, and by then it will have pumped the equivalent of about one million barrels of blood with enough pressure to squirt it about thirty feet ! So, look after it best you can and please donate to the British heart foundation to aid their pioneering and on going work with the understanding and prevention of heart disease.
Monday now, and offers of support the length of France are still dropping into my inbox, hopefully by this time next week I'll formulate some kind of a route, which has kind of evolved from a straight line from south coast to north coast into a far more organic and snake like path winding from home to home across the whole country !
Keep watching....
Sunday, 23 August 2009
Thanks to Lucy Stone !
Saturday, 22 August 2009
And the bikes not even left the shed yet !
Special thanks today to the Old Backscratcher, Will and Christine for their donations.... £425 and counting ! Keep it coming and watch this space...
Thanks.
Beware of the Pirates ! !
Thursday, 20 August 2009
I'm thinking sails ?
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
Suggestions for cycling music please......
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Powered by On-X !
"The Map"
Plotting the route...
Monday, 17 August 2009
Vital component !
Sunday, 16 August 2009
Alfies trailer !
Saturday, 15 August 2009
Now that's what I call a push bike !
The big picture !
I'm much better now, really !
Just Peddling.
I've been wanting to set myself a challenge, a relatively long stretch outside of my comfort zone, a time to reset and focus my thoughts through peddling, it's just a theory, walking could work too, it did for Forest Gump after all ! It's a major trauma having open heart surgery, on mind body and spirit, at first it's a barrage of discomfort and involuntary tears, then as the weeks pass and the pain subsides, thoughts of the past, the present and the future begin to haunt, not well enough to work and not ill enough rest, the headless chicken months ticking by to the relentless beat of my carbon fibre Aortic valve.
So, a bike ride it is ... Just Peddling...
I dont know about links and stuff yet, I'll be leaving that to my unofficial webmaster, Sarah who has her own successful Blogs called Muddy feet, or Red boots or something like that, I'm sure she'll do a link !?
Please look at and please consider sponsoring BHF, it's such a worthy cause.
http://original.justgiving.com/justpeddling