4 days until we start pedalling ..

This week is whizzing past. Wednesday already which means it is only 3 days until we travel to Paris and 4 days until we start cycling. So it is a case of 'coming, ready or not.'

Yesterday evening was the last gym session. I was hoping that Amy would agree that it should be a fairly gentle session and I'm glad to report that this was the case. There was a fair bit on the TRX bands and some basic press-ups - none of the dreadful asymmetric ones or one using the a beach ball to make it unstable. Even the warm-up was only an easy few minutes on the cross trainer.

This evening I've even cleaned the bike - degreased the chain (John, please note) and washed the muck off the frame. So I'm ready to pack it up in the bike bag. I'm grateful to Colin on Saturday giving me some advice on this one. I've got hold of spacers for the forks to make sure they don't get damaged in transit and I've got a roll of bubble wrap to help with the packing as well.

The sponsorship has also risen over the last couple of days and is now a whisker short of £2400. As long as I make it to Gevena, it will certainly be over £3000 - if you can spare anything, please help me to end up as far over the £3000 as possible.

So the big questions are 'What will the weather be like?' and 'Will I make it all the way?'and 'Will I recognised Thommy after 17 years?' and 'Will the col de la faucile be as bad as I expect' and 'What is the french for "Can I have a tow"?'. These will have to wait another week to get the full answers, but I hope to be able to use Alex's phone to at least put a few lines on facebook most days.

Roll on the weekend and let's get the show on the road.

Here is the link to sponsor me.