Training has been completed and everyone’s weather prayers seem to have
been answered – in fact the weather forecast couldn’t be better.
Last year we had wind, rain, floods and temperatures of about 12C, this
week it looks like being 25C, sunny, dry and no wind.
The team, Pads, Neil, Ian and I, are really looking forward to the bike
ride and on behalf of the team, I’d like to thank everyone for their support,
donations, best wishes and reading my blog.
Whatever you have done it has been much appreciated – now we just have
to go and do it!
We’re looking at starting the ride on Wednesday morning at about 8.30am
from Whitehaven’s Irish Sea waters, arriving in Keswick for lunch, before
powering on to our overnight stay.
The next two days are shorter, in terms of mileage, but could potentially
take longer to ride due to the serious hill climbing that we face.
After those two days we face the final overnight stay in the pub and,
as luck would have it, a steak night and quiz night all rolled in to one.
Then it’s one more climb, before descending the 48 miles to Tynemouth
and the North Sea.
I’ll be trying to update on twitter, while I’m sure we’ll all be
updating Facebook at some point, so stay tuned.
The highlight for me will be seeing my daughter on the route cheering us on – I’ve not seen her for almost a week as she is on ‘holiday’ with her grandma and granddad.
So here we go, wish us luck.
Finally, we’re riding the Coast to Coast for Cancer Research UK, so if you would like to donate please go to http://www.justgiving.com/mydadgrahamknowles
Any donation is very much appreciated and will go to an excellent charity that has helped millions of people and will hopefully help many millions in the future.
A new appeal has helped boost the total and it’s now over £800, so the £1,000 target is well in sight.
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