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Reached 717km, today my 101km ride made me pass through two well known cities, Stratford which is William Shakespeare home town and Coventry which has greatly suffered during WWII. Have a look to the postcards I send from these two cities along with some interesting facts about it. There’s...

Today’s journey (92km) made me pass through Oxford, a town that has a special meaning to me since I’ve been there on several occasions and more especially because my friend Marc lives here with his family! Why not take advantage of the virtuality of the challenge and pay him...

I have been asked to give more details of my virtual bike setup which I usually call “My Pain Cave” as many others do. Why “Pain Cave”? Well mainly because when you practice a sport and put some efforts in, it makes you suffer a bit as for the...

Rest Day! Even if I could have ridden a bit today as well, I believe it was better for my body to give it some time off in order to recover and I might actually do the same tomorrow to be in very good shape on Thursday. This is...

Today was the 5th day of riding in a row, I managed to ride for an additional 91 kilometers making the total goes up to 524km. I am still in good shape but will be happy to enjoy one or two days of rest 😉 This part of the...

Before going to chase Easter eggs and filling my belly with chocolates, I did my daily ride today with a total of 144km. 105 of it was done joining a high pace group ride « SAS 200 » which enabled me to ride at an average speed of 44km/h thanks to...

Easter weekend means more freetime (and maybe also more chocolate?), today I was able to ride a total of 144.5 kilometers leaving Plymouth and the Smeaton’s Tower far away. Still I managed a quick stop there to provide you more details about the place and was even able to...

Today was a 85km long ride which did bring me very close the Plymouth, on my way I went very near Eden Project and here is a bit of history about it : Eden Projet has officially opened in March 2001, The Times hailed the Project as ‘the eighth...

It’s 5.30am, I’m going down to my « pain cave », change my clothes to cycling gear, power up the computer, TV Screen, fan… now let’s start Zwift, the program that I used to control my smart trainer and that simulate the terrain and make me ride almost as in real...

Tomorrow at 5am, my alarm clock will (hopefully) wake me up, this signal will be the first of a long series involving early daily wakes up for most days of the week in order to be able to complete the 1,083 miles / 1,743 kilometers of the whole journey...