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  1. Original post
    vernon
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    I can't sleep because of mild anxiety. I've double checked my packing lists
    and everything appears to be tickity boo. The gas is switch off the back
    door's locked and there's now else left to do but have breakfast.

    My legs are mildly aching from yesterdays adventures in the peak District
    where I DNF'd a 100km Populair. All was going well until the climb from
    Edale to Mam Tor and my legs refused to play. At this point the dawning
    realisation that smller chain rings were in order and a spare smaller chain
    set has been fitted. I checked the diatance that I rode and found that I
    was only 4km under distance and as I'd got back to base with an hour and a
    half to spare I might have been able to complete the ride successfully. I
    know I made the right decision as I'd feel pretty sick if I'd overstretched
    a tendon or ligament in my legs.

    I've found a blog which takes input from mobile phones and I'll be updating
    it on a daily basis. It can be found at http://jogle-ride.blogspot.com/

    I'm going to try to be more disciplined on the ride this year and aim to be
    on the road earlier that I was last year. All being well fourteen days
    should see me through but I'll not be disappointed if it's sixteen to
    eighteen days.

    Off to check the gas and back door again...

    TTFN

    Vernon

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  2. wafflycat
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    Best of luck

    Cheers, helen s

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  3. Bob Cox
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    In article <[email hidden]>,

    vernon said:

    I've found a blog which takes input from mobile phones and I'll be updating
    it on a daily basis. It can be found at http://jogle-ride.blogspot.com/

    Why is the blog titled "JOGLE Ride August 2007" ?

    If I were doing it it might take that long admittedly ;-)

    --
    Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.

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  4. Danny Colyer
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    vernon said:

    I can't sleep because of mild anxiety. I've double checked my packing lists
    and everything appears to be tickity boo. The gas is switch off the back
    door's locked and there's now else left to do but have breakfast.


    <snip>

    Quoted message said:

    Off to check the gas and back door again...

    You've forgotten to shut your computer down ;-)

    --
    Danny Colyer <URL:http://www.colyer.plus.com/danny/>
    "He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

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  5. elyob
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    "vernon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    I can't sleep because of mild anxiety. I've double checked my packing lists
    and everything appears to be tickity boo. The gas is switch off the back
    door's locked and there's now else left to do but have breakfast.

    Goog luck, and keep an eye out ..

    10-year-old CTC member Pip Sayers will this month, alongside his dad
    Pete and big brother Lenny, cycle from Lands End to John O'Groats.
    Partly for fun, and partly to raise money for charity, the ride will
    cover approximately 1,000 miles and will take up to three weeks. We
    think Pip may be the youngest person to undertake the journey under
    their own steam. CTC members can claim a free Lands End to John O'Groats
    guide, worth £12.50, by sending a self-addressed, A4-sized envelope with
    50pence worth of stamps to: CTC, Parklands, Guildford, Surrey GU2 9JX.

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  6. John B
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    elyob said:

    "vernon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    I can't sleep because of mild anxiety. I've double checked my packing lists
    and everything appears to be tickity boo. The gas is switch off the back
    door's locked and there's now else left to do but have breakfast.

    Goog luck, and keep an eye out ..

    10-year-old CTC member Pip Sayers will this month, alongside his dad
    Pete and big brother Lenny, cycle from Lands End to John O'Groats.
    Partly for fun, and partly to raise money for charity, the ride will
    cover approximately 1,000 miles and will take up to three weeks. We
    think Pip may be the youngest person to undertake the journey under
    their own steam.

    From No 92 on:
    http://www.users.waitrose.com/%7Eianclare/links.htm:

    "To the best of our knowledge the youngest rider to complete the course prior
    to July 2002 is nine year old Chloe Ingham from Ribchester, Lancashire, who
    cycled 1,056 miles with her mother and her two sisters in 2001. For about 10
    seconds on July 21st 2002 the record was held by Capabilaty-Jack Cann who was
    aged 8, but then his 7 year old brother Bow-Jango Cann went over the line and
    took the record. The boys cycled unaided on their own bikes from John O'Groats
    to Lands End in 22 days. They rode with their teenage sisters Haby-Blu and
    Calamaty-Jayne, and parents Jim and Sam"

    Elsewhere it does indicate that this superb achevement did have a back upcrew
    so I'm not certain how Bow's "unaided" compares with Pip's "under their own
    steam'".

    Brilliant rides though.

    John B

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  7. Roos Eisma
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    John B said:

    "To the best of our knowledge the youngest rider to complete the course prior
    to July 2002 is nine year old Chloe Ingham from Ribchester, Lancashire, who
    cycled 1,056 miles with her mother and her two sisters in 2001. For about 10
    seconds on July 21st 2002 the record was held by Capabilaty-Jack Cann who was
    aged 8, but then his 7 year old brother Bow-Jango Cann went over the line and
    took the record. The boys cycled unaided on their own bikes from John O'Groats
    to Lands End in 22 days. They rode with their teenage sisters Haby-Blu and
    Calamaty-Jayne, and parents Jim and Sam"

    Quoted message said:

    Brilliant rides though.

    Interesting names too...

    Roos

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  8. dkahn400
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    Roos Eisma said:

    Interesting names too...

    Their parents being called Jim and Sam may have had something to do
    with that.

    --
    Dave...

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  9. David Martin
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    At least I think it was. Big chap on a black classic steel framed
    tourer, with four altura panniers and a mileater Jersey. In Edinburgh
    Waverley station this afternoon. I think he may have travelled up on
    the same train as me from down south..

    I nearly said hello but he seemed in a rush and I wasn't sure if it was
    him..

    ...d

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  10. elyob
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    "dkahn400" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    Roos Eisma said:

    Interesting names too...

    Their parents being called Jim and Sam may have had something to do
    with that.

    Aha, the wife swap family....

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  11. Martin Bulmer
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    Roos Eisma said:
    John B said:

    "To the best of our knowledge the youngest rider to complete the
    course prior to July 2002 is nine year old Chloe Ingham from
    Ribchester, Lancashire, who cycled 1,056 miles with her mother and
    her two sisters in 2001. For about 10 seconds on July 21st 2002 the
    record was held by Capabilaty-Jack Cann who was aged 8, but then his
    7 year old brother Bow-Jango Cann went over the line and took the
    record. The boys cycled unaided on their own bikes from John
    O'Groats to Lands End in 22 days. They rode with their teenage
    sisters Haby-Blu and Calamaty-Jayne, and parents Jim and Sam"

    Quoted message said:

    Brilliant rides though.

    Interesting names too...

    Roos

    There should be something the parents could be charged with, some kind of
    cruelty to children. Cruel & unusual naming?
    No wonder the kids did lejog. Anything to get away from the taunts of their
    contemporaries.
    --

    Martin Bulmer

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  12. Rob Oldfield
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    Just remember that if you see a sign pointing a Dover, then you've probably
    gone wrong. If it says Vladivostok, then that's more definite.

    And did you feed the fish?

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