The power of two is greater than two

In 2009 Cape Epic, when the going gets tough, the tough get going!

You would have thought that sub zero temperatures would have blasted away any self respecting bug from the lungs of the Ecosse Posse.

Not so, the bugs are made of special stuff in Fife. Bigman woke to the sound of a running nose. His nose.

It was running faster than an Ironman in the Invernessian Marathon - sub 4 hours!

It was with this heavy burden that The Bigman opted out of the 40km route across the bridge. The Fit One was off on special duty and the Ironman was on band practise duty and so there was no imperative, no duty of loyalty, and it was freezing cold once again.

Instead, Bigman took care of some small administrative tasks fully intent on heading for the gym for a two hour session before the Sunday Fives. and then four o'clock drifted by with just a few loose ends to tie up. And then five o'clock arrived. Just in time to hop in the car and do a few weight exercises and the obligatory 2200 sit ups.

And then it was time for footie. The Fit One was unable to make it and so one side was missing Scotland's number one keeper and only had four men. Each of these four men played brilliant attacking football, all at the same time exposing the defence to have little more value than a chocolate fireguard!

On returning to Chez Bigman, he conducted an analysis of the Cape Epic route.

Day 5 is a time trail over 27km ascending 860m. This will be seen as a bit of a rest day. A strategy has emerged through the mists of chaos. The riders will leave with the leaders in the field going last. With 300 teams leaving at 30 second intervals, it will be five hours before the team placed first heads out on the road. Bigman and The Ironman have a cunning plan.

They intend to take last position over the first four days so as to ensure an early placing on the time trial , thus avoiding the need to hang around for 5 hours. And then on day 6 and beyond they will power through the pack.............. and to infinity and beyond!

Alternatively their placing by day 5 may make the strategy pointless!