Last night I sent Andrew, our tour leader, a text - "Help us, we are eating too much and need to start riding". He was worried that there was a problem. I explained that I was just kidding.
This morning we met at the Bus station, next to the train station at 9:30.
This was out first opportunity to meet the other cyclists. We loaded the trailer and the van, hopped in at 9:40 and started driving, about 650 km. We drove for a couple of hours before taking a break. I tried to double check the names of my new acquaintances, I did fairly well.
Back in the van until a lunch break, I checked the last person and had gotten his name wrong, but now I got it.
We have Ingoff from Reichenbach, PC and Ingun from Asker, Marcel from Weissenhorn, Martin from Illertissen, and Volker from Colone. Volker is about my age, the rest are in their 40's and 50's. They all look very fit. We are talking about doing a warm up ride tomorrow when we arrive in Henday.
A couple more stops before we arrived in Clermont at 6:30ish, we agreed to meet for dinner at 7.
At Dinner, Andrew, our tour leader, gave us a rundown of what would be happening the next couple of days. In the morning we agreed to a 6:30 breakfast to avoid a conflict with a tour group. We will start driving at 7:30.
After a nice dinner we sat around and got to know each other a little better.
We are getting closer to our first day of cycling.
Must be an impressive group of riders to make YOU feel less than "Monsieur Uber-Russ the Magnificent!"
ReplyDeleteI guess irony doesn't translate very well into German.