No More Sleeps!

The alarm's just gone off on my phone to remind me to start cycling to John O'Groats...thank God I set that or I may have forgotten!
Myself and Chris set off from York train station to Penzance at 2pm today in preparation for the start of the big ride tomorrow morning. We'll meet Eddie at the Lands End Hostel tonight, he's travelling over from Norwich. And that completes the three musketeers. One fat scouser and two guys that by now must know better!
We've had a nice bit of coverage on Minster FM this morning and the paperazzi have promised there'll be an article in the York Press. Let's hope it raises a bit of sponsorship. Between myself and Chris we've raised about £3500 to date and we'd love to get that up to £4k for the Heart Foundation before we reach John O'Groats.
It seems a bit strange leaving the family and home comforts behind and the knowledge that there's just me and a few kilos of belongings to take me 900 miles is a bit disturbing. It's softened a bit by all the best wishes I've received over the last couple of days.
The weather forecast is dismal with 30 mile and hour winds and heavy rain forecast for Sundays big climb but we're sort of used to the wind and rain now and sunshine would have been such a shock to the system.
Cornwall here we come. We'll keep you posted!
Phil