Just rolling

Well, I’ve just completed my last real day of training. A modest 17 mile ride to make sure the bike still works after an unidentified creaking sound developed yesterday. Creaking gone, bike happy.

I know I’m taking a nine day training-less break before le grand depart, but at least I haven’t spent the whole month of August relaxing in southeast Asia… ahem. Anyway, if we trained too much it would just erode the challenge, wouldn’t it? Ascending the hills of Cornwall and Scotland with an effortless grace wouldn’t lend half the satisfaction of the agonising slog that we’re expecting…