Training is not going well. A mixture of crappy weather and commitments, (I'm a single parent), have made it hard for me to really get some saddle time in. I did do some miles at the weekend, but really didn't enjoy it. Three bursts of hail stones, wind, rain and the realization that I don't like drop bars, There just isn't the variety of hand positions that you get with butterfly bars, so I took my butterfly bars off my old bike, (Keira) and put them on to my new bike, (Sienna). This does save having to buy a new bar bag, so that's good.

I put Keira's original bars back on and she is now back to her original, beautiful self, She's a GT Zum S1, a hybrid, but I urned her into a tourer, shoved over 20kg of crap on her and rode to Italy... she's due a rest. She will now be a commuter bike, her original purpose.

So, this weekend, the first May Bank Holiday, I will be on Sienna, getting some serious miles in. I don't doubt I'll be tweaking the seat a bit and maybe the new bars, but she is set up, pretty much how she'll be for the 1000 mile Tour de Stannah... let's see how that goes