The Tour de France starts in London this year, handy for both the law courts and major pharmaceutical companies. The week before there is a
randonnée [strike](if any mod knows how to put an acute above the first "e" I would be obliged)[/strike] essentially a closed road ride over the 120 mile course for a limited number of participants.
I talked to my brother about whether we could be arsed trailing down to London, it will be a great day, but at the cost of several days travelling and transporting bikes etc. We decided against it and despite our apathy the 5000 places went in under 24 hours. About a month ago Mrs B saw a competition in a newspaper for entry, easy question, name in a hat, you know how it goes. Today my name came out the hat and I'm in the ride.
So, it's too good not to do it despite the logistics. The main problem is the month delay in me finding out as I really am not as fit as I should be. My training plan consists of:
1) Build time machine
2) Start training in January
Any help with stage 1. would be greatly appreciated.