Day 11
Route: Lower Egleton to Bristol - 56 miles
The ride should have been less than that but as I managed to get us lost between the 2 places I have worked in Gloucester we managed to rack up 6 or 7 extra miles.
The ride was fairly uneventful the only thing that happened was a failed attempt to get pictures of a couple of big hawky things which were hovering about, well they were
hovering about until I got the camera out then they
decided to get all elusive.
Then it was off to Davies country and a big family
reunion for the Little Prince.
As that’s not much of an update I will give you a
rundown of some of the science experiments we are
running on ourselves through out the trip.
Firstly a friend of mine sent me a report about “For
goodness shakes” a supposed sports milkshake
(got to be something wrong there!) Apparently if you
drink the aforementioned shake after exercise by
day 3 you can do 40% more than you could with
normal sports drinks. Well with our 80 plus mile
days we thought 40% more that’s err…. Lots of miles,
got to be worth a go. Sadly our efforts have been
constantly thwarted in this experiment as we have
got to day 2 twice now only to not be able find any on
day three. The management types among you will
now be saying well why didn’t you buy 3 days worth
when you could and then complete the experiment,
however the rest of you will understand that whilst it
is marketed as a ‘sports’ drink it is still a milkshake
so even if we bought 3 weeks worth one day there
would still be none left by the second day.
The second nutritional experiment was suggested
by Brissle Dave from our work , he has recently taken
over the training schedule of Matt ‘The Future’ Haynes
so should know a thing or two about nutrition.
Apologies to those of you who don’t work in our office
but to explain Brissle Dave is the office lifter of heavy
stuff and reader of Flex magazine ( Not an electrical
retailer magazine as it happens but the one with the
big orange fellas on the front looking like they are in
a Gurning completion)
Dave suggested we try super vitamins , for those of
you who don’t know they look and taste exactly like
rabbit droppings but Dave said we had to take them
so what could we do. They seem to have been the
more successful of our experiments as we now
have bright eyes, lovely glossy coats and wet noses.
Little Prince update
The Little Prince was very excited to be heading
home, and even more excited by our trip to Ashton
Gate tomorrow.
His riding is just like that of every 8 year old that you
see in the street. Honestly I almost expect him to
wear his coat like a proper Batman cape (you’ve all
done it!) on every downhill he gets as much speed
up as possible then launches himself at the hill
pedaling like a mad thing only to die half way up.
This technique can be completely stuffed if a nasty
person gets in front of him on the downhill bit and
then gently glides down the hill, he gets very upset
when this happens Mr and Mrs Davies you should
be ashamed as your son knows some very very bad
words.
Hopefully more cycling stuff tomorrow.
Paul
Total Miles Covered: 934
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