60 Milers and Hills on the mind!

Well with just over a month to go Dave headed East last Monday and took on the Telscombe cliffs and beyond to the east edge of Seaford. He cycled 52 miles in around 5 hours excluding the occasional stop for refuelling, so it appears our first estimation of around 10mph on these bikes is bang on! Only sheer determination saw him pull through as he climb a horrendous hill out of Newhaven heading West bound. Of course the best bit is he will do it all again this weekend looking for the magic 60 mile marker which puts him in line with Beachy head-Eastbourne, these length of rides are essential and will have to be common place over the weeks to come.

 Dave and John both know they have to “turn up the heat” on all training with only 5 weekends to go, so climbing hills during the week has been a priority for the last few weeks and last night saw them take on High Salvington (Remember these bikes are not built for this kind of ride).

 Also the guys have decided to ditch the trailers they were going to tow, a hard decision had to be made as it could of compromised the whole project and “there’s making it difficult” and there’s  “making it ridiculously difficult”. They won’t escape carrying the extra 10kg limit they imposed on themselves of clothing and provisions, but it’s better than carrying an extra 10kg of trailer!

Bring on the weekend…