Why on earth did you decide to use that route?

OK, good question.

Apparently, one of the best parts of a long distance cycle ride is the planning. Buying lots of maps and poring over them into the wee hours trying to work out the most scenic challenging route you can find. Tweaking it to make sure it includes detours to all those places you've wanted to visit, but have not got around to. Most people only do LeJog once, so it's important to get the route right. So why did we decide on this route?

Answer: Laziness.

Although I'm sure the planning phase would be great fun we were just too lazy (and I for one didn't trust my route planning skills), so we opted for the easy approach and bought the Bike Britain book. It's obvious really. If you want to plan a trip from one end of Britain to the other, buy a book written by a New Zealander ...... hmmmmm ...... oh well, too late now.

Actually we did read a few good reviews of the route and the book itself is very informative and has already provided useful information for the trip, which includes a check list which has Bike as the number one item. Which is good really, because with less than four weeks to go that is one thing I'm missing. That reminds me, I must stop blogging an call the bike shop again...

An outline of the route can be seen on the left. At some stage we'll post more detailed routes and upon completion we'll add our thoughts of the route. Anyway, I've got a call to make.