My personal Everest

I couldn't get any Wifi access yesterday so I'm posting this blog after our first days ride so you will be getting two for the price of one tonight.

Bacon and eggs is so much nicer when its throwing it down outside

(7th May)

I am sat typing this blog whilst the rain is hammering down on the campervan roof. We are parked at Sennan Cove a mile from Lands End. The weather has been awful today. I took Moo out for a long walk across the fields and down to Whitesands beach. Tt was beautiful, even in the rain. However on the way back we got chased by a bunch of hooligan bullocks. I tried to look cool like a farmer (cos frames never get chased - why?) but he kept coming. mont chickened out first and dashed off on his extenty lead. So I obliged and legged it too. We just made it over the stile before we became anther agricultural statistic. Rosemary says I'm being a bit dramatic.

Rosemary the following morning trying to find the mystery bullocks

We've just had a lovely tea of eggs, bacon, beans and fired potato. It was really cosy, whist getting warm again from the long walk. In fact I have to say that as I look out of the window and the daylight is fading, I can see lights out to sea and I am thinking the this doesn't seem real? I feel kind of strangely detached the task ahead. I think I am too cosy at the moment. Its not sunk in that tomorrow I will be pedalling the first of nearly 1000 miles.

I've just seen an anonymous donation come through on JustGiving and once again I have been overwhelmed by the support and generosity I have received over the las few months.  I know that my parents and my brother Harvey have been genuinely touched by the kindness that everyone has shown. So just before I set off,  from all the family, I would like to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart.

Now I need to get to bed as I need to be ready to "knock the b*stard off" as Sir Edmund Hillary once famously said.