Without any shadow of a doubt it was the best week of my motorcycling life. I have to say motorcycling life just in case anybody from my family reads this. I have just been reading through the few diary entries I made on my fund raising web-site before I went to Morocco. I will be traveling miles, off-road by motorbike through the Sahara desert in early January. We will be averaging miles per day, for 5 days solid.
We will be following parts of the Dakar Rally. That is pretty much what I did. Pre-trip Diary Entriesβ¦. Well, what on earth have I agreed to do? I am pretty unfit at the moment with only 7 weeks to get in some kind of shape, other than the egg shape I currently find myself in.
Still, at least it's a good time of year to get fit in, what with all the Xmas parties and the always interesting Lakeland weather to go out running in. Up until a few days ago I was training pretty well, running 5k every other day, but I have been laid up with a cold for the last few days.
Alcohol kills all known germs apparently. We'll see. I think 5 days of hard technical riding is going to be bloody tiring, so need to get a fit as I can in the time available. I did interviews for Lakeland Radio and the Westmoreland Gazette last week, it may help to raise some more sponsorship.
I will be in the paper this Friday hopefully. The trip was mentioned on the radio on Sunday on the hourly local news bulletins.
