Tuesday, 29 November Posted by Velouria Posted on 5 comments. Thursday, 17 November Posted by Velouria Posted on 2 comments. Pushing is allowed We all had to start in the same group Pre race excitement There might have been more rules and stipulations, but between the lack of minutes at the meeting and the wine no one could recall much the next day. All that was left was for the secret training and intelligence gathering to begin. While I'd like to think that my team was well on track to reaching new levels of fitness and technical skill as the cold winter months wore on, I'd be telling a lie.
As it turned out, my sources revealed that things weren't going much better in the other teams. Intra team politics, bad weather and sheer laziness all culminated in a phone call I received with a little under two months to race day.
The faster half of Team Heading for a Divorce Red John - as I'm pretty sure he tried to kill me several times was quite worried that they would have to change their team name to Team We're Already Divorced , and so in the interest of saving his marriage had come up with a proposal.
Would I be willing to do a partner swap - not the keys in a fish bowl type - and ride with him? And to sweeten the deal he'd throw in some free massages for my wife and I.
The problem - too much stuff, not enough space! Having successfully beaten Red John in 5 out of 6 stages in , I was up for the challenge, but still had two conditions:. To say I was nervous was an understatement, and when there was talk of finishing in the top 3 I suddenly wished I hadn't been so cheap and accepted the free massages.
