Sunday 1st June - only 4 weeks to go!!!!!!

Last Thursday 29th May I had my last fundraising coffee morning with the CTC. We raised £127 which was fantastic and most of the cakes went which saved me from eating them up - although the boys were upset that most of the brownies went!!

We had a pretty horrible downpour on Friday which resulted in most of the roads around Kenton being flooded including the school which apparently was thigh deep in water and not good news for the parents as the school has closed and we don't know whether it will be open for the rest of the term! Totally ruins my training schedule for the next 4 weeks!!

The flooding resulted in a very interesting ride on Sunday as it started in Exminster onto Powderham for coffee then Dawlish for lunch - poor Kirby who was leading got a lot of grumbles as we had to tromp our way through mud, water and more mud!!!

I have to admit that I haven't seen as many landslides as the ones we saw and some of the roads were pretty impassable - We all got wet feet going through this river apart from Jenny who was sensibly wearing sandals!!

Last night (Tuesday) I went out for a ride with Mike & Phil who are also doing the London to Paris ride but route 2 which is defiently easier than my route as they start in Croydon and only have to cycle to Newhaven on the first day - what a doddle! They are off next week so we had a very leisurely ride round the lanes of East Devon about 20 miles ( they were only supposed to do 5 according to the schedule!!!) But we did have a lovely slice of chocolate cake at Mike's house at the end!! Thank you Sally!

I feel really small in the middle of these two!! At least I don't have to keep up with them as they are pretty fit now - well done guys you have done some awesome mileage - lets hope the kids go back to school soon and I can get some more miles under my belt in the next 4 weeks!!

Good luck Mike & Phil and have a glass of wine in Paris for me when you get there!!