The Sunday Times December 18, 2009

Hi all, this has to be a quicky as im going to start packing and then think about what the hell i’m going to get everyone for crimbo.
I had the photo shoot for the Sunday Times today so got myself down to Wapping.  They wanted to glamourous looking shots so they did my hair and [...]

Kiwis track and half a marathon December 9, 2009

I think it has all caught up with me and i felt really ill  and run down this morning.  I rode at Kiwis track nr Rendlesham yesterday and felt really fit but this morning i woke up and felt like i was coming down with something.  I havent stopped really since before starting to build [...]

Bikes gone what now? December 7, 2009

So my lovely rally bike with lucky number 131 is sailing its way to South America at the mo.  I leave on the 28th so not long really.  Just been to the dr this morning as having sciatic nerve problems in my left leg, he just gave me some anti – imflamitories and said to keep [...]

Finishing the bike ride December 7, 2009

We took 3 and a half days from Monmouth to Lands End.  Monmouth – Taunton, Taunton – Okehampton, Okehampton to St Ives and then St – Ives to Lands End.  The weather wasn’t that good and from Taunton to Okehampton was a nightmare, it rained all day and because we took a few b roads the [...]

Shrewsbury November 26, 2009

After we,d picked up my wallet which i’d left at the fuel station the night before we headed off on our 60 mile trip to Shrewsbury.  It was a lovely sunny day and we took mostly country roads – V.Nice.  Nothing really to report apart it felt like a really long day and got very [...]

Kiwis Magical Mystery Tour November 26, 2009

Now this is my favourite story so far – Just because it is so ridiculous and I still can’t quite believe what happened.
I met Kiwi and his wife George at a GBXC round in Monmouth, i think he’d had abit of a nightmare race and was doing really well until he had some sort of [...]

Race number 131 November 25, 2009

The bike passed scruitineering today and is now heading to South America. I have been given lucky race no 131.
But to go back to it’s life story so far: Not sure what chapter i’m on but im going to call it:
Chaper 5? Driving me Mental:
Got back to London for a night then headed to Blythborough [...]

Alice and Ethel: Day 3 November 25, 2009

For those of you who don’t already know, the reason why me and Kate decided to do the bike ride from John O’Groats to Lands End was to raise money for the altzeimers society. Both of our grandma’s (Alice and Ethel) had the awful disease. As i have already mentioned I had to join the [...]

Road to hell: John O’Groats to Lands End November 24, 2009

As part of fitness training for the Dakar me and a friend had decided to cycle from John O’Groats to Lands End.   We’d planned to do it at the beginning of Nov but as the rally bike took so long to prepare it got pushed back and back until it was at the end of the month.  I [...]

The story of the rally bike November 22, 2009

Chapter one: Ebay and the Nose Job
So i’d paid the first entry for the Dakar and was helping my boyfriend to sell his daughters KTM on ebay.  Whilst checking on how many bids it had had I had a quick look at Yamaha 450’s and there it was a hardly used 450 for sale for [...]