If you missed our interview with Stephen Bumfrey on BBC Radio Norfolk on tuesday and would like to have a listen hit play on the player!

Wow, tomorrow we are on BBC Radio Norfolk on the Stephen Bumfrey show. Not sure what it's going to sound like, but I imagine it will be nicely edited so we don't sound too stupid!

Tune in tomorrow at 7:00am on 95.1 or on online here.

Hmm, when I was a kid I used to play football, go fishing and ride bikes. Seems kids now go round hacking websites!

Unfortunatly we lost a good amount of recent posts due to this and I did not bother backing them up like a dipstick. In short we are both back in training now and have done some 60 and 70 mile rides to get the legs moving again. Check one of the rides here.

Depressed isn't the word, my knee is still not allowing me onto my bike. 3 weeks left to train for 300 miles, Brilliant!

The only good thing is we are taking the shirts and designs in to get printed tomorrow. Wonder what is going to go wrong with that!

So, I phoned the company we are doing the event with to see what would happen If my knee was too bad to ride to Paris with. The nice lady on the telephone gave me some great news, for only £50 each we could be moved to the September trip giving us 4 months to get some propper training in. 'Excellent' I said. John was over the moon with this as his training has been non-existant with his fractured elbow, kids and part time degree course (I don't know how he does it).

This morning John phoned up to inform the company we would like to take them up on their kind offer. Well, the information we had been given wasn't entirely correct. The £50 we were required to pay to move route had risen to £388, which multiplied by two is just too much for us to contemplate.

We need some good news to cheer us up!

After all the nasty names I have called John for being so very stupid and getting an injury before our ride to Paris I have gone and achieved something similar.

I decided long long ago that I would quit football six weeks before our trip to make sure I did not get any nasty injuries to ruin my training. Of course seven weeks before departure, I get slammed in the knee by a huge and determined striker. At first there was no real issue and I went on several training sessions before the pain really started. It has been a over week since I have been out on my bike and it's going to be at least another week or more until I can start training again.

Big downside to this is there are only 4 weeks until the ride!!!!

Unfortunately, on the morning of Friday 13th, I fell foul to the curse and had a bike accident on the way to work. My bike slipped away from underneath me as I was negotiating a round-about resulting in cuts, bruised muscles and a fractured elbow.

This couldn’t have come at a worse time as we were planning to launch ourselves headfirst into our training, I now have to wait up to six weeks before I can get out on the road. I do plan however to have a few sessions on the turbo although this will be purely time in the saddle rather than a proper workout as I won’t be able to change gears!! With God’s grace I will make an earlier recovery..

It has taken ages to register the charity, but the JustGiving website is now active so we can receive online donations for our London to Paris cycle ride!

Visit the site here and help our cause: www.justgiving.com/openpact

Thought I would create some more header images to be displayed randomly accross the site as it is way too cold to do any real cycling and my exercise bike is broken.

To keep track of how we are doing in the fundraising and to give everyone who is interested information and photos of our progress we decided to create a new website. As you can see it is quite simple and knocked together rather quickly, but hopefully it will prove useful for all our fundraising events including the London to Paris event next year!