Well I've seen everything now.......chamois cream for your biker’s bottom...It smells quite nice actually ...I'll let you know after Saturday if it works!
Only three days to go now and after several weeks of despondency I am feeling really up for it. I've had quite a few training rides including Aberdeen to Aboyne and back and Banchory to the top of Cairn O'Mount.
I had a couple of weeks where I didn't even get on the bike - it was evil!
One result of cycling is the eating that goes along with it - every ounce of pasta in my mouth ended up directly on my bum and tum, or so I thought.
Back to the lovely Struan at the gym for a bit of personal training did the trick. Struan is lovely but a hard task master - some sort of punishment for persuading him to Ride the North with me - he got me back on track. I have had to remind myself that the cycling is really all about Kilimanjaro so it doesn't matter if I get off and push sometimes!!
I guess the £1000 incentive to my sponsorship fund also did the trick. Thank you Bill it was just what I needed to motivate myself again.
