The countdown continues!

The New Machine!

The countdown continues and I am getting more excited and nervous by the day.  Training has been a bit less recently as various commitments have had to take priority, but it should resume today if the rain goes away.  I normally ride on a road bike but this year have only ridden on a mountain bike to get more accustomed to the different riding style.  I have also invested in a new one, see above, which I have found really comfortable and very responsive.  So far since April I have covered about 4,000K of which  about 2,500K have been on the new machine.  Not doing such long rides now, just keeping the legs turning and riding the local 10K hill as practice for the longer ones on the trip.  It would be helpful if I lived a bit higher up than 280 metres, not exactly High Altitude - Quito being 10 times higher!!