Planning is key

Planning takes place on many levels.  There are the obvious bits of planning; like mapping the route and training.  Then there are the less obvious ones; like planning the mind.  For many people 1500 miles seems like a near impossible distance on a bike.  However if you know in your head that it’s achievable, your biggest battle has been won.

Previous adventures

Stu (my husband) and I have been on a few cycling adventures in our time.  We’ve cycled Lands End to John O'Groats, Roscoff to Sandtander and across Ireland and Wales.  I remember the first time I cycled 60 miles in one day.  I had been scared that I couldn't do it and I was amazed when I'd done it.  Once you pass a psychological hurdle like that you never have to do it again. You always then ‘know’ it's possible to do which is of course a huge boost.

The training

This Sunday we set out on a 30 mile bike ride for our training.  Here’s a map of where we went.  We also took the camera to practise with as we’ll be posting video clips along the way.  Our blog will be pretty much a daily update. Here’s a short clip from Noss Mayo

Who are we meeting

We are meeting a variety of people, some from Twitter and some from the coaching/business world.  Here’s a run down

• Julie Hewson (Director of the Iron Mill Institute)
• Sir John Whitmore (TBC)
• Myles Downey (author of ‘Effective Coaching’)  
• Nick Williams (author of ‘The Work you were Born to Do’)
• Nancy Kline (author of ‘Time to Think’)
• Heather Townsend ( on Twitter)
• Meredith Belbin (the creator of the Belbin team roles system)
• Jonathan Senior ( on Twitter)
• Jackie Cameron, Margaret Middlemiss and Joanne Hannah ( on Twitter)
• Andrew Scott ( on Twitter)
• Paul McGee (author of SUMO “Shut up and Move on”)
• Rhys Jones ( on Twitter)
• Geoff Burch (author of ‘Go it Alone’)
• Michael Carroll (supervisor trainer and author)
• Curly Martin (author of ‘The Life Coaching Handbook’)

We hope you'll be able to join the blog daily, to keep tabs on how we're getting along.