LEJOG – Training
Leading up to our LEJOG trip we’ve been training so that there aren’t any surprises on the trip. With a World Cup on, Wimbledon, occasional F1 Grand Prix’s, bad English weather, and general commitments it’s been tricky making the time, especially to train as a trio. But we have still got in quite a few runs.
Because of this we started our training mid April, and focused on making the most of the May bank holidays for back-to-back training. Here’s a break down of the runs we’ve done. In between the below runs done at the weekends, I (and typically the others) also cycle to work during the week. 32km round trip, but not every day so that I can rest for a big weekend run.
LEJOG – Equipment list
* I do now have a finalised kit list, with photos, which I wrote up a few weeks after doing this post.
As usual cycling has been my biggest interest of late as the Summer weather begins to come into play. This year I’ve decided (after writing it off at first) to try and cycle 1,000 miles from Lands End to John O’Groats (LEJOG) on my Boardman Pro Carbon road racing bike.
I was initially put off, as my bike, being a carbon fibre competition bike, doesn’t have any pannier mount points and typically isn’t really built for long distance in terms of riding position etc… The lure of such a ride was too much though, and I pushed ahead with figuring out how I could achieve it.