When I am fit I can do anything. Limits are there to be broken and I often can--Or could.

But get something like an organised ride for the Masses. There will be the 25MPH pace line addicts that go up the mountains in big ring- because they can. But the majority are doing this ride for someone else. They have a charity they are sponsoring and they do not have the fitness to do the ride comfortably. Some of them know they will not be able to do the ride at all but they are going to finish- even if they have to drag that bike over the line. The ride is nothing to experienced riders but the strugglers are y=the ones to congragulate.

I have done rides where I know I can do it so why do it? Cos I can. And there have been rides where I am wondering whether I will walk up the first or the second slope with still another 10 to go. I think I have got as much out of the rides where I have struggled in comparison to the easy ones. By the end I know I have achieved something.