This page covers activity in 2005
There were four attempts, all successful.
2005 North & West Home Counties RRA
Winchester to Wantage and back tandem-tricycle
with Marina Bloom 3h 38m 6s for 81 miles
2005 North & West Home Counties RRA
Watford to Banbury and back tandem-tricycle
with Dave Johnson 4h 45m 13s for 109 miles
2005 North & West Home Counties RRA
Oxford to Cambridge and back tandem-tricycle
with Marina Bloom 7h 10m 2s for 160 miles
2005 RTTC #15 24 hours tandem-tricycle with Dave Johnson
467 miles
This year we were quite serious about the 24 hour. I chose to
prepare by getting several longish Regional record attempts in the
diary.
I can't remember if Dave wanted to do his training in a different way,
but as can be seen I only did one of the three preparation rides with
him...
Report of
Winchester-Wantage and back with Marina
Schedule for Winchester Wantage and back
Report of
Watford-Banbury and back with Dave
Watford Banbury schedule
A very windy day.
Report of
Oxford-Cambridge and back with Marina Oxford
Cambridge schedule
And so we approached the 24 hour.
Report of the 24 hour - with Dave
This was also the year when I lost a great friend and supporter of my
activities. John Dalton had been on several of my record
attempts including the End to End in 1992, but his particular input to
almost every attempt was in the form of weather advice. He
had many years of meteorological experience, and properly understood the
nature of record attempts. In the days when the technology wasn't
as advanced as now, I would call in at his house daily, with fax
printouts of pressure charts in my hand...
Bucks Free Press tribute to John Dalton
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