The barriers are down as I approach Haxby level crossing. These kids
are on their way to Joseph Rowntree School. It’s about 8.30am.
A few miles home from here and I’ll have done about 14 miles. Enough
training for today.
Just time for a short ride this morning so I’m heading out towards
Stockton (on the Forest not Tees) this my usual stop to stretch my
tight muscles before circling the city to Haxby or Skelton.
This is all for a sponsored ride to raise money for Palestinian
students coming to the Riding Lights Summer School. Link for donations
below
It’s been a busy work day today so no cycle training. So here’s a
picture taken a couple of days ago on the road (actually just off the road) near Castle Howard.
The new thing is that I am sending this picture AND message from my phone. My brother reminded me that I could do this through Flickr.
So now I’ll be updating both pictures and text from the road during training and on the sponsored ride in July.
To sponsor me visit www.help.co.uk/ridingbike
www.hopeinfo.co.uk – Welcome Enjoy the films and join the conversation…
I watched this film, Hope Hero by Jude Simpson, and I found it very moving. Lets put it this way, I needed a couple of tissues before it was through.
I think it’s the way it reminds me that being a Christian isn’t comfortable – neither is it for comfortable people. But it’s the hope it conveys for those who have no hope – if I’ll just get up and do something useful.
You can stand and watch the high speed trains shoot past on a wooden platform at the back of this building. The experience is sensational. Travelling at anything up to 125mph they don’t stop to let customers off – it’s just a viewing point.
I did a series of stretches here. I could feel my muscles tightening and some numbness in my fingers and toes. The result of a few hours in the saddle and leaning on the handlebars.
I travelled through Alne (pronounced Orne) and Tollerton to get here on the edge of Shipton by Beninborough. The main A19 passes nearby but it’ll be some miles before I join it. I turn off in a few yards to Overton and then to Skelton for the three miles home alongside the main road on a series of variable cycle tracks..
One thing I notice entering any town or city. The road surface deteriorates. So I judder my way into Eboracum or Jorvik, now known as York. Time for a shower and tea.
One day and 38 miles closer to my sponsored ride in the Yorkshire Dales next month in aid of Palestinian Students attending the Riding Lights Summer School.
To sponsor my Yorkshire Dales ride click here
