Posted by Alan Bull | Posted in Planning | Posted on 21-05-2009
Now we’ve finally made the decision to go ahead and cycle from London to Paris in September 2009, I am finally – a whole week later – only just getting to grips with the idea. Now we’ve said yes, it all seems so real and there’s just seems so much to organise and do now.
As many of those looking to ‘join the team’ live in different areas I decided to use my web skills to create this blog for all of us to use. It took me quite a bit of time after work this week to get it all setup, but I’m sure it’ll be worth it in the long run. The idea is to create one central resource for all of us to keep in contact, and track our progress during training and the event itself.
Hopefully, the content we all add here may help others thinking about cycling from London to Paris in the future. It would be great for those who have already completed this route to get in touch and give us any handy tips and advice – I think we’re gonna need all the help we can get.
So far 6 of us have provisionally agreed to take part, and talking to a few people about the event this week, a couple more have taken a serious interest in getting involved too which is great – the more of us the better.
So as you can imagine, it’s been a busy week all around but things are starting to take shape now. We have a rough date in mind of when we want to start the trip, a very basic route idea, and training – however informal – has now begun for most. Well thinking about when to start training anyway!