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@Velocio
You must know something I don't if you think I can reach the goal in 5 minutes! I feel I'm struggling even to get to the halfway point.
On training, it's been hard but enjoyable. A 50m excursion last week showed that longer rides with the odd hill still hurt my leg, so I'm off to the gym today. Sucks. But is exactly the kind of discipline I need.
As to organising the ride and the corporate sponsorship, that's on-track. The logistics less so. Turns out that when you have 60-80 people riding together that accommodation proves to be a hell of an issue. No-one wants their hotel fully booked for just one day of a weekend.
The guys behind techbikers want to double the size each year, but I can't see how they're going to do that without bedding people down in sports centres or something.
It's fascinating to watch and be part of something so disorganised and ambitious whilst still focusing on the personal goals of making that final push to fitness after Sciatica wiped me out for so long.