Funny title? not really, the tour de France is on at the moment, and you can only wonder at the stamina and bravery of these sportsmen 5/6/7 hrs non stop effort, brutal hill climbing dangerous highspeed descents (on tyres only a few millimetres wide) and very nasty falls,  makes your average footballers look like wimps, a quote from one of the commentators "footballers pretend to be injured, cyclists pretend not to be" mind you that can be said of rugby players as well, totally different culture and ethics. 

All this reminds me of a very special friend: Graham click here  (Biggles) and   here  for another view!! around the year 2000 he was living in Amersham Bucks and one friday he got on his bike and cycled to Holbeach,(about a hundred and ten miles) well actually Hovenden House golf club, took him about 7hrs and then played a round of golf with me....f#####g incredible!! by the way he is a rugby player........say no more!!