Steve Phillips

Second piece of the Jigsaw

Steve Phillips of http://www.bikeradar.com/road/news/article/cyclists-set-for-battle-in-epic-round-the-world-race-33068/ that introduces his Trans-Globe cycle race is worth a look. Some adventure. Maybe something for retirement. So this is the fella that's called in from the East.

I was in King’s Lynn this afternoon and had a spare hour. Steve was at home. This is weird calling in on a stranger whom your planning to spend 2 ½ months cooped up in a boat with. He’s normal enough! What did I expect really from an Officer of the Law!

In a short half hour we broadly establish that we’re in this for similar reasons. We’re not racers but live for the challenge. This seems to fit the bill. Has he thought about it before? It’s passed across his radar. He has a colleague who did it a few years ago. Mick Burchill, the first of many Atlantic Rowers that we are about to meet as it happens, who spent his allotted time riding the ocean waves with a late change crew-partner Lia in 'Dream Maker', back in 2009/10.

Have I thought about it before? Only for about 9 years my wife reminds me as we approach our 8th wedding anniversary and I still haven’t put it down.

Very quickly the conversation focusses on timing and I leave contemplating 2015, instead of 2017.