Route Planning

February has disappeared like a snowperson in the rain - so we really feel that the talk of organisation and training has to transform itself into action.
Whilst the countryside was still covered in ice and snow we grasped the opportunity for some "proper" route planning ie looking at actual roads on actual maps and trying to see if A really can lead to B and eventually on to (Le) M. Happily the maps of France do dovetail in to each other so we had a chance of finding a coherent straightish route. Of course, we rapidly became distracted by thoughts of the Musee des Beaux Arts in Rouen, Giverney, the Percheron stud in Montagne au Perche.....The eventual route will look like a drunken spider's attempt to walk the line.
Our distance calculations are heavily reliant on bits of string and vaguely remembered school geography lessons on scale. For this reason I have a horrible feeling we may find we have been over ambitious with our targets for some of the days because we forgot to multiply the scaled up figure by our combined ages and then divide by the number we first thought of. Time will certainly tell.
"Training " has acquired more focus now that our entries for the Norfolk 100 are confirmed. Our attempts to get some miles under our belts and tyres have been frustrated by gales and horizontal rain. So much so that we had to resort to static bikes at our local gym today. Grrrrr. However, last week's Spring- like interlude meant that on the round trip to the bike shop in Diss we were shedding layers for the first time in 6 months and I was cursing my lack of sunglasses. More of the same please. We need to acclimatise to June temperatures en France.