http://www.garethharrison.com/news/2010/02/back-on-my-bike.html A blog with all of Gareth's latest news! Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:09:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.garethharrison.com/news/2010/02/back-on-my-bike.html/comment-page-1#comment-46 Gareth Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:00:52 +0000 http://www.garethharrison.com/news/?p=487#comment-46 Cheers for all that John - that's really encouraging! and well done on doing it yourself! Cheers for all that John – that’s really encouraging! and well done on doing it yourself!

]]> http://www.garethharrison.com/news/2010/02/back-on-my-bike.html/comment-page-1#comment-45 John Bridgwater Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:54:29 +0000 http://www.garethharrison.com/news/?p=487#comment-45 Hi Gareth, I did the end-to-end about 11 and a half years ago. Admittedly I was a bit younger than you are now, and I wouldn't say it was easy but not the hardest thing in the world either. Me and a mate from work went from John O'groats to lands end in ten days in a trip that totalled 955 miles. We decided to go that way because my mate thought it better to finish at lands end where at least there is something to do. Scotland was the hardest part and took us 4 and a half days to complete. We took the C2C route through which was picturesque but not the most direct. Going over Glen Shee was memorable. We made up good ground the first full day in England when we cycled from Penrith (over shap fell) to Middlewich (about 115 miles). To train for this I started cycling to work (about 18 miles each way) about 3 times a week. Then we started meeting up at weekends and doing progressively longer rides until we could manage a 100 miles. Finally a couple of weeks before we planned to start we booked 3 days off and did 3 100 mile rides each day to see if we were up to it. One important factor in our success was support. We had friends (Mark Danks, Ian Whitby and Sean Farrelly plus another work colleague) who each did a stint supporting us by car, stopping at intervals with food and drink, and extra gear so that we didn't have to carry anything extra on our backs. They also went ahead and found us a B&B for the end of the day. It was one of my proudest achievements and I can thoroughly recommend it. Do it - you'll never forget it. Hi Gareth, I did the end-to-end about 11 and a half years ago. Admittedly I was a bit younger than you are now, and I wouldn’t say it was easy but not the hardest thing in the world either. Me and a mate from work went from John O’groats to lands end in ten days in a trip that totalled 955 miles. We decided to go that way because my mate thought it better to finish at lands end where at least there is something to do. Scotland was the hardest part and took us 4 and a half days to complete. We took the C2C route through which was picturesque but not the most direct. Going over Glen Shee was memorable. We made up good ground the first full day in England when we cycled from Penrith (over shap fell) to Middlewich (about 115 miles). To train for this I started cycling to work (about 18 miles each way) about 3 times a week. Then we started meeting up at weekends and doing progressively longer rides until we could manage a 100 miles. Finally a couple of weeks before we planned to start we booked 3 days off and did 3 100 mile rides each day to see if we were up to it. One important factor in our success was support. We had friends (Mark Danks, Ian Whitby and Sean Farrelly plus another work colleague) who each did a stint supporting us by car, stopping at intervals with food and drink, and extra gear so that we didn’t have to carry anything extra on our backs. They also went ahead and found us a B&B for the end of the day. It was one of my proudest achievements and I can thoroughly recommend it. Do it – you’ll never forget it.

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