From left to right Jay, Peter, Dunny, me Paul and Bucko

this is not the full party of the crew so i will amend with a new photo as soon as i can.

Hello again its been a while since my last annotation due to work and other commitments. Also to add very vaguely i was considering dropping out due to lack of support from work and the good old man flu which all blokes get at some stage to varying degrees. The chest infection which i had has now thankfully, totally gone and i am back to training. Oh if you have not already guessed i am now back on board and i am quite excited at the prospect of doing almost 140 miles a day (yeah right lol).
Pete is back on board due to his injury which has subsided enough for him to start training again after almost two months off his bike. Personally i think he was just blagging everybody and looking like the local vagrant to lure us into a false sense of security when secretly he has been training like a madman................lol.
Dunny's new bike is HOT HOT HOT although if it could speak or should i say groan it would be telling him "on yer bike sunshine" and then ride off into the sunset without Dunny (you now what i mean Dunny mate). Still for a man of his considerable bulk still manages to impress everybody with his sheer determination to not feel any pain on some seriously big hills around the Trough of Bowland, where as the rest of us whinge and moan all the way.
Tony has been his usual self, and very motivational to us all on the long training runs which to be fair have been pretty miserable at times. He has had a tough time lately and still managed to show his determination with his training and allot of the arrangements and logistics of this adventure of ours, also shout out to Dunny as well, who has had allot of input, and done allot behind the scenes.
Jay has done well lately and been getting some runs in and you can tell his fitness has improved and copes with the hills very well indeed. You would also never now that his bike bounced down the road at considerable speed which to most people would have destroyed your bike and left you standing there looking at a rather expensive heap of broken bike. Well done to BILL NICKSONS for fixing up his bike.
Bucko, well what can i say his fitness is on another level to the rest of us and his ability up hills is quite impressive to say the least. Also thanks for sorting out our supplements which we managed to get through S.I.S (Science in Sports)with a 25% discount, cheers. Bucko is also very motivational when he is not punishing us on the training runs lol.
Mark, well i cant really say allot about mark at the moment as he has been on nights, i know he is suffering with another cold, this would be his third in as many months i think. Lets hope he is still getting on his bike, which i am sure he is.
We have now finalised our driving crew whom are...
Paul Willet
Andy Kirkpatrik
we and everybody else should not forget the importance of there part in this journey as they not only have to keep within a 30 mile distance from us for supplement reasons but they are also sorting out food at the dinner time pit stops, picking up items we need from the local shops and trying to raise money as we go through the different towns. So cheers lads thanks for the help.
Finally myself Paul, well as i said at the beginning i almost pulled out due to various things but what i did miss out on earlier was my motivation dropped off the chart and i was ready for quitting. But thanks to the bullying from Jay and the others i got myself together and i am now fully motivated wahoooooooo.

I will now let you look at some photos i have taken and stop waffling on , enjoy.