Where does the time get to? It’s now UNDER(!) 24 hours before we turn our pedals in anger – setting out from Greenwich Park to Calais. Our London to Paris training has ground to a halt like a derailed Eurostar train. One  Gurning Grimpeur  is carrying an ominous injury (which started as some red hot tendonitis in the heel/ankle). Both ‘athletes’ (ahem) are relieved this has started to clear up and the patient's tortured, pain-induced, gurning has abated.  There'a also been the threat of contracting RSI from the frantic bout of emailing, Facebook-posting, tweeting and blogging that’ s been going on, to drum up further sponsorship on our Justgiving page   . The show, however, must go on. We’re all packed at least - give or take. All that remains is to cram into our bags, all the ‘essential’ last-minute items we’ve bought in a retail frenzy at Sigma Sport (I scoured the shop but they had no, ‘new sets of legs’ on offer). We hope the pre-booked taxi (‘b...

We’ve already ‘got the t-shirts’. But we haven’t yet, ‘been there’ (Paris); or, ‘done that’ (cycled to the French capital). Of course that’s all about to change. Team, Gurning Grimpeurs , are less than a week away now from the Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research  (LLR), fund-raising ride from London to Paris. And 500km in 4 days is certainly something to gurn about. It will require considerably more effort than the daily 23 mile bike commute to work, or a rigorous RPM class in the local gym. As mentioned elsewhere , we’re doing the ride to raise money to help the fight against leukaemia after that dreadful disease touched our lives recently. A tag line on the charity’s website reads, "Closer to a cure thanks to you”. And that just about sums up our motivation to raise as much money for LLR as we possible can – through the imminent London to Paris ride, the Prudential Surrey 100 sportive in August and other assorted events. Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research has bee...