Join the dots

Just a quick blog post today as it is a particularly crazy time of the year at work – apologies to any clients who I’ve been playing phone/email tag with over the last couple of weeks.

My Giant the day I brought it home from the shops. Its considerably more dirty now.

Some of you may know that in January I bought a bike. I did this to combat my increasing waistline since effectively retiring as a player from my beloved Redcaps, hence ending my main source of exercise. I’ve learned a lot about the cycling community (which is, um, ‘interesting’ to say the least – might write a blog post about that one later if I get the time), lost about 5kg, and gone from being completely shagged after a 4km ride on flat ground to being able to ride the 17km home from work up a bloody great hill (well it feels it to me anyway) withough dying.

The next step in the process is to ride some longer distances, and my starting point is going to be in a couple of weeks’ time in the Bicycle SA Coast to Coast event. At 65km this will be the longest ride I’ve done to date, and will either sound trivial to any ‘serious’ cyclist, or frightening to anyone who like me up until a month ago considered such distances to be worthy of car travel only.

The more important bit of this though is that the Coast to Coast helps to support the Smith Family, who in turn support young disadvantaged Australians to get an education, something which is near and dear to my heart for various reasons. Now I’d like the help of my friends, family and colleagues to sponsor me on my way, which you can do by following the link below.

Thanks to anyone who donates, look out for the old slow guy on the black Giant heading to Victor Harbor on the 14th – that would be me.