
August 24, 2011, by Andrew Burden
JoGLE, D-Day minus 2: the Vice-Chancellor’s Blog
48 hours until the Life Cycle team sets off on leg one from John O’Groats.
Planning is more or less complete, although last minute bits and pieces that might make the journey just a little easier are still being bought. My last training run was on Sunday. That’s it until I get back in the saddle on Friday.
This morning I loaded my two bikes into our support van: a ‘Scott Speedster’ for road riding and a ‘Cannondale Quick’ for when we are on tracks. (The ‘Speedster’ and ‘Quick’ labels obviously worked on me).
We have benefitted a lot from the time which various colleagues in the University have generously given to provide specialist advice: on nutrition, health, safety and medical care.
The one last thing to worry about between now and Friday is the weather and the current 5 day forecast is not good: showers on Friday and heavy rain on Saturday and Sunday, with winds of 26 mph. The only good news is that they are not headwinds!
Let’s hope this weather system moves through quickly and that forecast is revised. If not, we are facing a tricky start.
David Greenaway
August 24th 2011
To follow the riders and sponsor them, visit the Life Cycle website
You can also donate by visiting my Just Giving site
Good luck – doesn’t seem to be any link, at least yet, to find out where old Nottingham graduates might be able to come out and wave, and put a penny or two in your bucket, as you whizz past? Probably on Tuesday in my case.
Hi Mike
Thanks for the kind words. Depending on where you are the routes are laid out on the Life Cycle website http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/lifecycle
If you’re in the area you could also join us at Sutton Bonington on the 3rd September, where there’ll be a barbeque and a welcome for the riders on their way through the area.
Thanks again.
I can’t see anywhere there that tells me whether you’ll be coming anywhere near Edinburgh on Tuesday?
Hi Mike,
They will be passing near Edinburgh on Tuesday, but waiting for clarification as to what time roughly and where.
Thanks
Andrew