Return travel:

Graham Brown's miscalculated comments that the event is only 16 weeks away turned my mind to return travel arrangements.

Browsing the Ryanair site, prompted by Dave Chandler's email, I was surprised to see that, indeed, the corporate logo of Ryanair had been updated to more accurately reflect the customer services ethic of the budget airline. This is to be heralded with the new banner line to the website - 'Ryanair, we don't care!'.

Further onboard costs have been announced that might impact our group, including a 'technical drivel' limit of 3.2Gb - undoubtedly to be exceeded by Brown in mounting the steps, and an 'ogling' surcharge on glances at stewardesses' breasts / backsides / legs surely to be levied on Brookes and Eales.

On training, various cycle websites advise a training regime equal to 4 times the overall event duration, with recommended endurance comfort level of 50% beyond maximum.

This equates to an average of 192 miles a week training from now, and at least one run of 178.5 miles!

Help!!!!!