After realising I was about to turn 40 I was rummaging around in my garage one day and found my old bike propped up against the wall. After taking it out for a couple of spins around the block I rediscovered the reason I had bought the bike almost 15 years earlier (I loved cycling).
Over the next few weeks I started to regain some of the fitness I had lost over the last 10 years after becoming a pen pusher and having a family. Looking for routes one day on the Net I stumbled accross a blog set up by a Team of guys that rode from Liverpool to Leeds along the the canal tow path in one day 127 miles.
http://teamaldi.blogspot.com/
www.towpathtreks.co.uk/LLC/index.html
That was it - It can be done - I have to do this - So here we go.
Time for a drink
Kim at the finish
The welcome party
Last mile marker
It's a long way back
Getting Phils bike on the car
Good leg strengh
Bikers hangout
The Cafe at Five Rise Locks is a great gathering point for cyclists and its great to chat to them all about bike stuff and routes etc.
Only down hill from here
Ariving here on our training always gives us a boost as the tow path is good and also no more up hill locks.
Snack time
You need plenty of mars bars to keep you going this wet grass tow path was hard going sapping energy
The winding route near Gargrave
This shot is taken from the tow path looking across towards another stretch of tow path you ride on that apears to double back on its self. You get the impresion here that your not making much progress not what you want after you have pedaled 85 miles already.
Unloading not far from Ganow Tunnel
It started raining as soon as we pulled into this road great July weather
ALLweather training
55 Miles of muddy wet trails prepering for the big day - we now know how team Aldi felt on there big day.
The 1993 Clockwork Orange
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