Our Training

Just thought I would add a few pictures of our training.  This one was when we had finished the British Heart Foundation Harbour Ride around Portsmouth.  Great fun and our second medal!!!



















We do own other shirts honest!  This was at the end of 62 miles around the New Forest - that was really hard but we did get a medal for our efforts!!!

We had a weekend in the Peak District organised by the Group who have arranged this trip and we met a few people who are going to Tanzania with us which was great.  The weekend was a challenge in itself but we really enjoyed it and as that was early on in the year it gave us a good idea of how much work was needed.

Just a week ago we headed off to Corsica for a week of fairly hard riding to test our ability to cycle for five days in a row.  Even though we did not cycle as far each day as we are going to have to in Africa we did get back on the bike each morning and were both quite impressed with the fact that we could!  Corsica also gave us a chance to cycle in the heat - not that we had had too bad a summer back here of course - but a couple of days it was in the high 20s and we certainly needed to drink a lot to replace the sweat dripping off us by the time we reached the top of the mountain.

I think I am getting to like this biking lark!