Darth opening BMI calculation of 29.8.

Suggested target weight of 83.5kg will get BMI below 25 and I'll be deemed "healthy".

Havent been that weight for nearly 20 years. May need to work on height.....

Target Week 1  = 1000m climb, 100km cycled.

Genesis - Always a good name for a first chapter

There comes a time in every man’s life when not only is your BMI slowly approaching your age, your idea of a good time is a bottle of vino and something good to watch on-the-box, and all your amazing “out-there” dreams are slowly and gradually one by one being confined to a small cardboard box marked “That Would Have Been Cool” that you have to take a stand, take a deep breath, look the world in the face and scream “Sod it! lets do It”.

Unfortunately the “It” referred to in this instance is the time honored commencement of the delicate negotiations, horse trading and straight out good old fashioned bribery necessary to enable the ascertainment of the “always permanently revocable at a moment’s notice” illusive “dream leave pass” which enables you and a few good, solid compadres to wave goodbye to the spouse/girlfriend (and offspring where applicable) and head out on a good old fashioned boys holiday trip.

After months of careful negotiations and diplomacy, that only Terry Waite could have had the patience to persist with, on April 22 2013 the stars aligned, the seas partied and three good men and true finally were issued with their hallowed leave passes to commence a Coast to Coast cycling odyssey across the Southern Thailand peninsula ending in Phuket. Better still, nobody had to get themselves chained to any type of radiator! (Although Mr. GG did offer).

"Too old"...."Us?"

The plan:

5 full days cycling commencing 30 March 2014 in Surat Thani and ending a week later in Costa del Phuket (or Пхукет as it now more widely known.)

The trip will encounter mountains, snakes, rivers, civil wars (not definite)  and probably more snakes.

A dream trip make no mistake but one which would take months of hard training, weight loss and big-noting if it was to be any type of success.

Today April 29 2013 is T minus 333, let the hard work commence……….

Coming Up Chapter 2 – Recruitment of kindred spirits.