You can tell it’s coming.
A friend’s restaurant has been booked for July since the middle of last year. The sodden fields round here have begun to sprout camp site signs. There are suddenly lots of invites to like Facebook pages about art and bikes, and the 100 day Yorkshire Festival has been launched in that cycling Mecca, the Trinity Centre Leeds.
Google Yorkshire, festival and cycling and you get ….. Harewood House, cheekily draped like this site in yellow and black, sporting a Tour countdown and … a hefty price list. So, it is time to dust off this small, proudly unfunded and non-commercial bit of fun celebrating the amazing fact that the Tour is going past the end of the road, where you can watch it for free.
So how did the peloton spend the winter?
Always up for trying new fitness regimes we had a go at interval training.
Shane spent the interval delivering the Humber Mouth Literature Festival, while Steve said a long goodbye to some troublesome wisdom teeth.
Now we are back in the saddle, or back round the table planning this Spring’s trip. As many ride the route of the tour, we will again be following our own personal geographies in the other direction, a new door to door route from a new door, because Shane is moving house.
And we will be blogging on things we never got round to talking about last time: the etiquette of nods and hellos, new free bikes in Spain, the marking of maps, and how there now seem to be more cyclists with beards.
