Shearer and Chiles cycle route??

[Paulus]

Most of us know that they are cycling from Newcastle to London via Westbrom for sport relief, but, I can't find any link to the actual route they are taking. Maybe they don't want a lot of forumers tagging on for a few miles but it would be worth giving them some encouragment. Is there a link to the route?

 

[Fnaar]

Not in great detail, but you can get an idea of it here:
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/cycling/osm/story/0,,2260264,00.html
In fact, it's crap! West Bromwich... London... yeah, great!
There's somewhere on sport relief site where you can track their progress, but not till they've set off.

 

[girofan]

Possibly using the East Coast Main Line?

 

[Paulus]

I don't think Westbromich features on the routehttp://www.nationalexpresseastcoast.com/Our-Destinations/

 

[sheddy]

James Cracknell was on TV talking on Monday about his 10 day epic and said he was pleased to have so much support on the road. http://www.challengecracknell.com/

 

[02GF74]

It is a ll a con, they are using a bus and stopping of at various points to pose.

 

[Maz]

mr.chiles looks like a young benny hill, dont you think?

 

[Cathryn]

He looks like a fat version of one of my friends...

 

[wafflycat]

Mr Chiles has actually lost a lot of weight. He's a regular cyclist as can be seen from his legs at

http://www.sportrelief.com/supercycle/about

It's the hype that gets me...

"All the experts have told Alan and Adrian that they're crazy to even attempt such a challenge."

Obviously they haven't heard about many an audax rider... PBP.. LEL.. or E2E record of 44 hours, 4 minutes and 20 seconds, set by Gethin Butler in 2001 ( a bit faster on 'bent by Andy Wilkinson).

At least Mr Chiles appears to have been putting in the miles training for this, unlike a certain footballer accompanying him.

I hope they do it, but I have a feeling that Shearer is going to suffer a bit more than Chiles