The dream is becoming a reality.....

I called the Bigman today.

It's a rest day and well deserved. Moonwalker has finished her MBA dissertation and tonight is the only night this week that we're going to be in the house together so it seemed appropriate to have a break.

The problem with a break is that it creates more thinking time. It dawned on me that we're flying 5 weeks on Thursday. It's coming up very quickly. It's now less time to go than has passed since New Year and that feels like yesterday.

I've just about finished the admin tasks of our holiday and sorted out the car hire and a few other minor things. The last thing is my race insurance and it looks like I'll go with AA having recieved the best offer from them. The price range was amazing going from £45 to over £230! The companies at the higher end obviously feel a major injury or death is a real consideration and have factored it into the price!! Scary stuff.

We're trying to raise a few quid for less fortunate kids and we're both very grateful to those who have kindly donated so far. We've funded the entire costs for the trip ourselves and every penny raised will go directly to Aberlour.

Our Just Giving site is http://www.justgiving.com/Derek-Bottom and if you want to read more about the charity http://www.aberlour.org.uk/

We're the lucky one's getting to train and race doing something we love.