charlie p

Yip chapeau to billy mac. i was only king for a week but bring on Drumlanrig Thanks to paul and everyone for making it a great day. quite enjoying this racing mallarkey

well done happy to support

ben Well done. Looking forward to seeing your progress up the leaderboard Charlie

Great trip the adrenaline was high and we all set off at breakneck speed from Brugges to the first pit stop. With the exception of James ( I want to be alone-Inverclyde velo) Watson and Jim ( can I do this in a 39 x 12 )Daley we all regrouped and set off as a bunch for the rest of the sportive, Tom ( this ain't long enough ) Hill decided that it would be tougher to do the Koppenburg twice and then an extra loop. Can not wait to see route he took. Billy ( I got held up at the lights ) MacDonald was unfortunate enough to see my rear the whole way round so Willie Cosh gie us your dough. Davie ( I love cobbles) Bowman Al ( do you think this hill is too steep )Yuille Richard ( I want to be alone )Montague Kenny ( I also want to be alone )Christie Darryl ( my legs are shredded) Gunson Greg ( if you sing happy birthday one more time I will hit you ) Balden and Alan ( I hate cobbles ) Mclean were all stalwarts in the bunch. Ramsay ( I am really a racer ) Muirhead and Paul ( hey who won the sprint ) Mcdonald were just fantastic with their encouragement and good humour. Last but not least Martin ( I am the one and only true Flandrian ) Mulholland clearly has found his cycling mecca and unfortunately for me his was the arse ahead of mine.A special mention to Jan for being our official photographer.Agree with Richard. the Wheelers did themselves proud and looked great. Paul and Tom are front runners for the Hammock award this year. Lombardy is my preference for next one. ps Colin all the boys will confirm that I beat the 10 hour mark

no pressure then

Final report on fundraising before we head off to Flanders. With gift aid we are now over £2000. willie cosh has donated a bmx bike and mick kelly from Kersland is distributing raffle tickets for this. hopefully this will raise a few bob.if you want to sell raffle tickets let me know. Intend to have presentation and raffle of bike at kersland school at end of april. . Think it would be a nice idea to get The Jets to do the presentation. intend to close the site about 20th april so if you are wanting to donate get a shifty. Colin h get your cheque book open. 15 x 50 is a lot of dough ( he he )thanks to all who have supported this fundraiser and thanks to the bunch for fantastic camaraderie over the past few months. I tend to get soppy after my 4th glass of wine Cheers

elaine great news. Hope to see you out with the bunch soon Charlie

kenny/Richard route sounds good. if chung comes along i am sure we will do the coffee stop route. forgot clock goes forward so how about 9am start from clubrooms crossing erskine bridge about 9.30am if we take shortcut thru Linwood Cheers

yip me as well

greg Willie Cosh has keys.

also happy to go north. can kenny or richard post a route. is any body up for an earlier start. getting home ay 6.40pm last sunday did not go down well with she who must be obeyed

Sponsorship stalled a wee bit but still receiving some great donations and lovely messages of support. thanks to all who have supported this fundraiser

what a cracking day. myself tom Billy martin and greg left from the clubrooms and had a quick gallop to ardrossan. We met the other guys at Ardossan and had nosh and banter on the ferry. paul joined us for the first half of our trip round arran then decided to show the other group how a 58 year old can sprint. Highlight of the day is Billy's dramatic fall. full speed down The Ross Hill oops turn ain't happening then airbourne into muddy dyke. yes my words were choice but only out of concern. how can i give him a doing in Flanders if he is in the A & E ( methinks I will regret saying that ). thanks to willie Cosh for lift back. Agree with greg need to do this trip again in Summer

yip c u at clubrooms ' 9.00am. alan my understanding is that this is a club pace run so you should have no worries particularly having gone round arran toute suite

23 miles to ardrossan. i will be at clubrooms for 8am. Think we will need to get off pretty smartish.

Yip super day.

Yip Will need to leave no later than 8.15am. Willie Cosh is taking van so are bail out options for lift back. Would appear to be 2 groups one doing figure of 8 and other going round island. Both groups hoping to get the 4.30pm ferry back

Will be at clubrooms for 9am. Alan if you can not make clubrooms happy to give you a call just before we leave with a note of route Cheers charlie

Darryl i have not given up on run. forecast is for heavy rain thru the night which will clear the snow then it is to be drizzle by 6am. by 9am it will be positively balmy. Not had a good week for training so need to get out. Come on i have seen worse lets go for it Charlie

gutted for you tony as i know you had entered drumlanrig. Hope you have a speedy recovery Charlie

Ah disaster forgot it is my dads 90th birthday party on Sat 19th so can not do Arran. Have a good one. will try and pursuade billy mac to go on the Sunday

Another great week. With gift aid we are over £1000. Fantastic donation from the ladies at Charleston Bowling club who raised the money at their AGM last night. Come oin the Kersland

john i will be there . do not have keys just now but should have tomorrow cheers charlie

martin thanks for starting me twice sorting out my rear wheel and then providing soup and to think you are taking me to flanders. I am going to be so well looked after

fantastic first week for fundraising site. £ 729.74( including gift aid) so far. paisley daily tell me there will be an article in paper this monday & they want to do a post race article with pics. Thanks to all for supporting the flanders 15