The countdown has begun – just six days until I attempt to ride 100 miles across London and Surrey in under six hours (thanks to Dodgy drummer Matthew Priest for sharing the above brilliant cover of Europe’s The Final Countdown btw).

It’s touch and go whether I’ll hit the sub-six hour target: yesterday I completed my final training ride, completing just over 80 miles at an average of just over 16 miles per hour (you can check out my ride on Strava for more stats)…but I’ll need to average over 18mph across the 100 miles to achieve under six hours including drinks stops.

If you want to come and support me on the RideLondon 100 this Sunday you can click here to see the 102 mile route.

If you’d like to sponsor me, please go to my fundraising page. Any contribution will be gratefully received – it costs just £12.20 for Mary’s Meals to feed one child for an entire year.

If you haven’t heard of Mary’s Meals, that’s not a surprise – it’s a fairly small charity, and that’s one of the reasons I decided to ride for it: like the London Marathon, the majority of RideLondon places are handed to major charities, with a number of additional spots being awarded by ballot; as I won a place in the ride via the ballot, I decided to ride for a charity that isn’t handed out places by the RideLondon organisers.

If you’d like to know more about the charity, I suggest visiting either the Mary’s Meals website or its youtube channel. Or you can watch this 4 minute video below:

Thank you and God Bless.