Last year when I set out to do Palace to Palace I had never cycled 45 miles and I ended up doing it in a reasonable time.

I snapped my ACL earlier this year, and a big part of the recovery from surgery was cycling, so now I have got marginally better and way overconfident when it comes to cycling based things....

To make this years P2P interesting, Richard Lamacraft and I have decided to do the 45 miles on a Boris Bike. They weigh 25KGS so twice my road bike and significantly more than a normal bike. They also only have 3 gears and a top speed of about 15mph. This will make getting up a hill impossible and anything other than a downhill a real chore. As if that wasn't tough enough, we have decided to do it dressed up like Boris Johnson - so full suit!!!

This madness is surely worth some of your hard earned cash. I am genuinely concerned about how I will manage this, not only because of the challenge, but also because Richard is a really good cyclist and will probably kill me if it takes up too much of his Sunday.

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