It's OK warton, we can take pictures of them round with us, not for inspiration but in case we don't make a cut.
We can show everyone the pictures and say "that's the b4572rd who screwed up my training!" 🙂
To be honest, don't think I would have needed much of an excuse to pull out of a 90 mile road ride, having to do it on an MTB would suffice 🙂
I'm getting excited now been training steadily through winter and early spring gradually increasing mileage on longer rides each month. Mixing it up with interval training and doing some longer rides on my own deliberately to help with the mental side of the challenge which everyone who competed last year said was almost harder than the physical side of it.
Looking forward to rolling down the start with 649 others 😀