Shropshire highlands challenge

Pics of the 2 of us

Ready as we will ever be....

Thank you

Just like to say a huge thank you to Arnie & Alison Braden for their fantastic support and donation XXX

More training rides...

A great ride out today, 65 miles plus today we had a flyover from the red arrows !!!! This is next weeks challenge......

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Training

Well it is now about 4 weeks until the ride so I have had a bash at one day of climbs and welsh hills for 70 miles. Beautiful country. Drop dead gorgeous.  

Felt good too. Must remember to eat loads before and keep topping up with good energy food every couple of hours. 

The roads are not too busy and people are very good ( sometimes ). I know us cyclists can be irritating but bear with us please ;)

We are now 6 weeks from the start of our ride across the UK from west to east. Not much happening this end except for pounding the streets and B roads of North Shropshire and East Wales for training hours and building up for the ride. We have also entered the Shropshire Highlands Challenge from Ludlow on the 16th June as a tester, it is a gruelling 65 miles and 6500 ft climb ride organised and well run. Should be good training, although 80 miles a day for 5 days seems a bit more of a challenge right now. If anyone is reading this please let us know what you would like to know about, pics, videos, maps of the course, training, etc, etc. You can post a comment on here or e mail me at rwowen@btinternet.com

So far so good.....

Lots of cycle rides around Ellesmere, Oswestry and beyond. I really wish I was more of an expert on this blogging malarky as I use an app on my phone called Strava and this carries all the info on rides I have done with Clayton. I could then show you lovely people what busy enthusiastic bikers we are. I will try and get these up for you with maps and stats and the like. We have also invested in Garmin GPS with heart monitors to help us train. I bought mine after Clayt to be honest. It seemed like a good idea at the time and I have to say it is fantastic. It beeps when you are about to have a heart attack so it is money well spent I think ;) We are off tomorrow on a 50-55 ride to Lake Vyrnwy in Mid Wales which is beautiful and a fairly steep climb too which I cannot understand why but I am really looking forward to it. The date for the west to east ride is fast approaching now, about 12 weeks !!!! O M G !!!! Here goes, copy and paste Strava....