The cycling jerseys we were going to use and sell a bulk on are now not going to happen. This is due to a number of reasons mainly that they were expensive to produce (approx £40 each) and there was a concern that the money being outlayed to produce a large (minimum) order, wouldn't be recouped. There was a fair take-up through contacting friends and colleagues, but we just didn't have a large enough number to justify the order..
However, instead we'll be offering T-shirts as:
A) They're much easier to produce, and
B) The same profit margin can be made on them as with the jerseys (with all proceeds of sale going back to the charity), and
C) I think more numbers will be ordered, considering the lower cost of the item and also because they're not a technical item of clothing.
More on this to follow shortly (I promise!) but if you're reading this and you're interested, the t-shirts will roughly be about £20 each, and will be yellow with the logo attached to them, that's the Pebbles Project logo you see in the top right hand corner of this page - so signal your interest here, or contact peddlingforpebbles@ymail.com.
An update on training, well, I've been doing my usual cyling to work, and upping my speed, my fitness has definitely improved as a result, but still I'm well off the pace.. I've mapped out a new cycle training route pictured below, this will be a circuit I will cycle once every weekend morning, for the next month or so, to get my fitness up. As it gets nearer the time (only 75 days away now!) I'll be doing the circuit twice round, as well as mixing it up a bit.
Good 'ol Ray has already been bombing it up and down disused railway lines up in the peaks where he lives, and even managing to fit in a bit of heavy road cycling (28.5 miles in 1 hour 37 minutes) - well done Ray!
Me and Guy should be getting together sometime in the next couple of weeks to have a cycling session, an update on that to follow. Then we should also be heading up to the peaks to Ray's and do a day's cycling up there which should be real test, being hilly and quite windy, which I hate btw!
This blog is driving me mad, it's really basic and you're pretty limited to what you can do with it. A friend who's a bit of a computer whizz (seriously, a great IT consultant and web designer, can be found here) has kindly offered to host and offical website as opposed to a blog (he's also registered the domain www.peddlingforpebbles.com for us, which directs here to this blog) - this will happen within the next couple of weeks, and it should be a bit swisher looking that this current site.
Thanks for the continued support, and keep it up!..
