It was him!!

After a morning visit to my dentist for my check up, and a quick lunch, I (Kev) decided its time to start getting some more miles in on the bike, as our Lejog ride is fast approaching. Didn't want to waist such a lovely day.
I enjoyed the ride out with the Club on Sunday so I decided to take the same route. The only thing I didn`t like about it, was the Southport Coast Road, drivers think its clever to beep their horn when they get along side you!!! Not clever, it frightens the c**p out of you.
As I was riding down the Coast Road, coming towards me on the other side of the road, all decked out in Team Sky colours was Bradley Wiggins. For those of you who don`t know who Bradley Wiggins is, he is a British professional track and road bicycle racer, currently riding for Team Sky. He won three medals on the track at the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics, and two gold medals at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. He came fourth in the 2009 Tour de France.
Now that Spring has finally arrived, there is a lot more insect flying around, I think I swallowed about a couple of dozen. Need to start riding with my mouth shut. I suppose the extra protein will help! LOL
56 miles on Sunday, 52 miles yesterday, hopefully out again Thu/Fri and look forward to getting out with Steve and the Club on Sunday.

Sport Relief

Lee mixes with the queen, Catherine Jenkins and too many to mention high profile faces as a part of his job. Thought I would try to hit back and add a shot of myself with James Graham (plays for St Helens) who worked with my class today as a part of Sports Relief. Unfortunately, this will mean nothing whatsoever to anyone outside St Helens or people who are not followers of Rugby League. James won Super Leagues Man of Steel, he's also an International player. But most importantly, he's an Evertonian. Top bloke!

Too many layers

This morning was the first that I (Steve) have not headed out with a real nip in the air. In fact, I soon realised that I had too many layers on (honest Lee, I'm no longer fat!!!). A super turn out at the shop, about 30 odd riders. We split into A and B groups, with the B group having about 20 odd riders riding over the moss towards Southport on quite a windy day. Great to see Kev out with the club. It's only his second ride with the group and he really looked comfortable all day, even when the pace was stepped up (20 - 23 mph)on the coast road heading towards Banks.
Clocked about 35 miles at the cafe stop and an averae of 16.7, all good for our end to end challenge, which is creeping ever so close now.
Stuffed ourselves with cakes at the cafe, where the A group joined us.
Kev and I hung back and decided to do our own thing for a bit to get more miles in, ending up clocking 56 miles.
Called in at Steve B's (support driver and Kev's brother) place on the way back, who took a few staged shots of us riding past (sad I know).
The warmer weather is around the corner and that bodes well for stepping up the training in the next few weeks.