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November 2, 2005
Le Tour - Fini!
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And so... the rest of my life begins...
I finished the Tour de Yanda today. After 124 days (99 cycling days and 25 rest days), I finally cycled the distance of the Tour de France: 3608km. And a day ahead of schedule to boot! It happened at 8:41am GMT under the watchful eye of the Trellick Tower. I immediately got off my bike rubbed my buttocks and took these pictures. One is, as promised, a picture of these same steely buttocks. The other is a picture of my new life -- of the road ahead of me post-Tour. I can't help but wonder if Lance took some similar snaps as he walked away from the podium knowing he would never return.
So far, I've raised:
$65 CAD for the Livia Stoyke foundation
£105 for the British Heart Foundation
£125 for Children in Need
and £565.38 for the British Red Cross
(plus a bit more for the Canadian Red Cross etc.)
There's still a bit of time left for you to cough up some pocket change. I'm still about £160 short of my target amount.
No more obsessively worrying about whether I will attain my goal. No more having to cycle every blinking day that I'm in the same city as my bike. I now have the option to take the tube home from work if I want. Finally, I'm free to drink booze at work again! Freedom at last!
Except now I have a new obsessive worry. It's National Novel Writing Month and I've signed up to try to write a 50,000 word novel by the end of November. To be honest, I think I will need far more enouragement to attain this goal than I did to complete Le Tour. Yesterday was the first day of NaNoWriMo and I managed just three words and I'm not sure they even count as they are the title of the novel. But they are three choice words: "Farts Like Garlic".
Brilliant, if I do say so myself. That phrase can be read many ways.
Right now, it's really just a poem, but by the end of the month it will be a fully-fleshed novel encapsulating an entire world of hopes and dreams and colourful characters.
But for now... ...back to work. I hope the cocktail trolley passes by soon.
Posted by YandaMan at November 2, 2005 9:12 AM
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Cycling
