1 day to Go!

It was day 4 of training, but more importantly, there is just one more day to go until the Festive Bike Ride. I feel like I've done nothing but bang on about it for the past couple of weeks, I'm sure you'll be pretty glad when it's over and I stop talking about it.

Training took a bit of a step back today as some of you might be thinking, "aren't you meant to be organising this bike ride?!" And indeed, yes I am. So today started off early with signposting the route. Fingers crossed the signs all last until Saturday, but the route is largely self-explanatory, well it is to me, and everyone will have a map.

Quickest and easiest way to signpost it was to do it on my bike, which was fine, until I started running out of cable ties and 'Straight Ahead' signs. So I made it as far as Cannon Hill Park and then headed for home (always seems to be 70% uphill on the home leg) had a quick bite to eat then headed to the office to do more printing of signs and laminating them. All done, I had a lift to B&Q to get some more cable ties.

So now, I am armed and ready to tackle the Frankley - Harborne leg of the ride. It's dark, but taking the car so should be ok. That will just leave the Cannon Hill Park to Harborne via the canal leg to attempt tomorrow.

So, lots of boring jobs today, but tested the legs, and no doubt will be on the bike again tomorrow. And I'll have to take all the signs down either sunday or monday, so I'm certainly clocking up the miles.

In other news, it was sad to hear that a cyclist died yesterday at the Lancaster Circus roundabaout in town. It involved a bendy bus and sounds pretty nasty. We'll hear two sides of the story that it was the motorist fault vs the cyclist fault, but either way, I don't see why we can't share a road. Birmingham isn't the most cycle friendly city, but if everyone slowed down and relaxed, we'd all get where we wanted eventually and a little less stressed.

And the big news of today was that British Olympian Bradley Wiggins as joined forces with the new British cycling Team Sky. Was always on the cards that they would attract him from Garmin. I can understand that the appeal of riding for a British pro team from their conception must be pretty exciting, but at Garmin, he was well catered for and there were plenty of strong riders to support an assault on the top rides next year. I hope Team Sky can back him in a similar way, and it'll certainly add interest to Le Tour de France 2010.

Ok, well, that's all for tonight. I'll try and update tomorrow, but if not, see you at the Festive Bike Ride.