Saturday, January 14, 2006
Your Saturday Cuppa
As you sat back and enjoyed your saturday morning coffee did you perhaps look out of the window? Maybe, as well as thinking how good the coffee was, you looked at that cold, grey and drizzle and wondered how you could avoid going out today. Or perhaps the dog "needed" a shorter walk than usual, or the attractions of re-alphabetising the cd collection could no longer be put off.
Spare a thought then for Mick Arms (Frozen Snow Mocha), the solo rider in the hvcoffee / origin mtb endurance team, and Mike Spence our Directeur Sportif. For at 10 am today Mick set off on his first lap in the Strathpuffer 24 endurance race, proudly sporting his Hill & Valley Coffee cycling shirt (on top of multiple layers of high tech warmth, I hope). As he left the start line, his support crew and backup team (Mike) turned to their support centre (mike's van and the two man tent) to prepare the energy drink (camping gaz ring, stovetop and a bag of ground e.caffe).
As I write this it is 4 pm in Buckinghamshire and the grey curtain and the continuous drizzle is giving way to dusk, but north of Inverness it is almost certainly already dark and just starting to get a bit grim.
Mick still has 18 hours to go. I hope the e.caffe lasts!
Spare a thought then for Mick Arms (Frozen Snow Mocha), the solo rider in the hvcoffee / origin mtb endurance team, and Mike Spence our Directeur Sportif. For at 10 am today Mick set off on his first lap in the Strathpuffer 24 endurance race, proudly sporting his Hill & Valley Coffee cycling shirt (on top of multiple layers of high tech warmth, I hope). As he left the start line, his support crew and backup team (Mike) turned to their support centre (mike's van and the two man tent) to prepare the energy drink (camping gaz ring, stovetop and a bag of ground e.caffe).
As I write this it is 4 pm in Buckinghamshire and the grey curtain and the continuous drizzle is giving way to dusk, but north of Inverness it is almost certainly already dark and just starting to get a bit grim.
Mick still has 18 hours to go. I hope the e.caffe lasts!
# posted by Charles Massey @ 4:19 pm 
