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@Norfolkbound
I'm sitting on target with 17 days of this left and I've raised £5,556 so far which I'm extremely happy about. On NYE I got my Isen serviced by Pauls Cycles in Dereham which was needed as I started to do some work on it and quickly realised that the bottom bracket had completely seized and I didn't have the facilities to service the bearings. This probably explained why I was finding cycling more difficult over Christmas and why I was more fatigued than normal.
I'm worrying a lot about Covid as I've been skirting around it for a while now and so many people I know/work with have it now. The last thing I want is to get ill. There was Covid in my house at Christmas and I luckily managed to miss it, I had a negative LFT and went for a ride on the 23rd and I received a phone call from my sister to say she had a positive one so I packed up a bag and went to my girlfriends flat for the majority of the Christmas break (I continued to be negative, I also went for a PCR). Cycling was more difficult there as I didn't have all my gear, plus I did occasionally ride home to turbo as my garage is completely separate to the house. Old bottles came in handy then as there's no toilet... Anyway, I just thought I should document this above as it was quite an interesting time in the challenge where I managed to catch up to the target daily distance.
In other news, I have put an entry into GBDuro. Hopefully I get a place as I like the idea of racing over the 2,000km and it being 4x500km stages as this could suit me, it also gives me something different to train for once this challenge is completed.