First 600 km training on the road

The weather has been sunny, or at least cloudy and dry, but with a 30k ph  wind from the north which makes a cool day positively icy as the air is so dry.  In fact it has been quite exhausting riding in the open countryside.  We had a day off today and did stuff in the garden, I got some exercise by taking out a tree stump about 10 inches across.  For the rest of today I was just grouchy as for once it was warm and windless.  The bike was calling.    Extremely hungry all day, I'm always grouchy when I'm hungry.

We received our Dell Mini netbook and I am quite amazed how quick I was up and running , I am using it to write this. 

We have 43 days to go!