The Prudential RideLondon 100
So, Sunday 29th July was the big day. Training rides, hours in the gym, watching videos of the big hills, driving the big hills, cycling the big hills in the middle of a heatwave to prepare me and my legs for the undertaking. The Pre-Ride I knew it was going to be a long day, the alarm going off at 4am making me drag myself out of bed and start cracking on with things. First, into the kitchen to neck some sort of liquid carbo breakfast (chocolate flavoured). Then into the bathroom for a quick wash, contact lenses in (at this point Claire F arose from the spare room with a "no" look on her face). I checked, and double checked my ride bag and away we went to Richmond station. At this point the skies were looking a bit crap but it hadn't started raining just yet although it was quite cold as you'd expect at that time in the morning. Approaching the station is when the first drops of rain started to appear, and when I thought... oh blimey, I need