Cyclathon and Celebrations! Any last minute nerves?

What a tremendous couple of weeks this has been!!

First, I have been heart warmed by a couple of generous people who have made a significant donation to the charities. We are reaching the target to "balance t

he books" which means raise more than the cost of the trip. Fantastic! I havn't even set off yet! Guys keep the donations coming in, even if its just a pound. A pound buys a cancer sufferer a much needed cup of tea!

Gibraltar to Yorkshire was always something that I was going to do in the future. Now its almost here! In fact, its this Saturday!! Arrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! Excitement and nerves are just stirring around inside me now. Just knowing that this time next week I'll be on day 2. It is just last minute loose end preparations now. The bike is going in for service tomorrow. A big thanks to Carl for that! Remember, I'm

setting off from Casemates square at 10am this Saturday! Pop down, the TV are going to be there too!!

I celebrated my 29th birthday on a bike! We did a charity cyclathon this Friday outside B Beautiful in Ocean Village for the Gibraltar Cancer Relief charity. Thank you to the Gibraltar Fire service for supplying the bikes at short notice. Thank you for the girls at B Beautiful who were bringing out cups of water on demand!

Thank you also to Vanessa Palmero Haywood at the Gibrlatar Society for Cancer Relief fo

r the birthday cake and arranging the whole thing. Lots of thanks there, but it was a good success, with people coming up to us wondering what on earth we were doing and throwing money into the buckets. We also had a charity bingo at the St Minver summer ball to raise money for the charity. Would like to thank Jonathan Fortunato aka DJ Jona for organising that.

Media interest is still growing, with a page 3 spread in the Gibraltar Chronicle. GBC Television have also been down to see me. Radio interviews

with Rother FM and Talk Radio Europe. Absolutely fantastic!

This weekend has been one of celebrations for my birthday and the fact its the last weekend before I set off. Have had far too much in terms of alcohol! So some last minute training this week should get rid of all that, and ensure I'm at peak fitness ready to embark on this journey!

That countdown clock on the front of this site, is getting rather close to zero!!