2009 Update

Well it’s 2009 and most of you may have worked out that we have not completed the little bike trip yet. The good news is we are getting serious about setting a date to complete this trip. At the moment we are looking at March but this all depends on work and anything else that may come up.

I can’t believe it’s been just over 4 months since we finished part 1, the time has flown and our plans to keep our fitness up and keep training never happened. Liz has been flat out with work, which I suppose is thankful in our current economic climate. I have been busy finding work; check out my new website www.leakeysworld.com, getting work, finishing my Mountain Leader Assessment and NVQ in child care and having a neck operation to remove a rather persistent cyst.

We got a new exercise bike for Christmas, so we can train indoors during the cold winter evenings and over the next week are going to be putting a comprehensive training programme together so that we are hopefully fit enough to compete part 2 within 2 weeks. We shall be keeping you updated with our varied training program via the blog. We hope that with a combination of exercise and real bike, strength training for our knees and some running and walking we should be ok. My mum is going to be doing the three peaks this year, she is planning to come up to the lakes once a month to train with us and as always will be on hand to advice and fix any injuries.

So now it’s time to unpack the exercise bike…