Have you seen Jamie Staffs thighs?

Well have you? I mean, come on, they are huge and should have their own gravitational forces.

Now, this isn’t a post about where Jamie buys his trousers but about cycling. I just used the thigh line to get your attention. Cycling is becoming a bit of a theme around these justonething parts of late, you may have noticed. With good reason.

A week or two I mentioned that I may be doing the John O’Groats to Land’s end bike ride next year. Well, that might has turned into a definite and I’ve started to get myself into some kind of shape to tackle the 900+ miles.

And so I return to Jamie Staff and his thighs. We went to the UCI World Track Cycling Cup yesterday at Manchester Velodrome to watch a good number of Team GB’s all conquering cyclists in the first major event since the Beijing Olympics. It was a great day…we had tickets almost on the finish line and saw some great action. The keirin, madison and team sprint were all concluded yesterday.

What strikes you is how fit these guys (and girls are). A mate of our Steve, Ray, who came along with us said that he’d had a go on the track and even though he bikes off-road quite a bit, after 5 laps he was knackered. So, the madison guys who did 160 laps in 45 minutes or so (that’s 40Km) must be frighteningly fit.

I guess if I’m going to be able to cycle 80+ miles every day for 10 days or so, I will need to be somewhat fitter than I am now.

Ugh, I’m rambling and because I’m hungry I need to stop.

So, the point of this post is to tell you this. I’m doing the JOGLE next year. I need to get in training and I started today. I don’t want to have thighs like Jamie Staff, as unlikely as that may seem and I have a new blog to track all the ride progress on.

Go here – 905milesinthesaddle.wordpress.com.

I’ll put some highlight stuff up here from time to time, but mostly justonething will retain it’s original purpose – recount my inane ramblings.

-pc.