As I was leaving for the airport today, Nigel said that maybe our "huge" bike trip was going to go into the Guiness Book of World Records. When I told the guy at the bike shop that we were going to ride the Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes, he advised me to allow the full weekend.

Yeah. We're taking five days. But we're also TRAINING as we RIDE, a novel approach that means that nobody in the family has had more than 5-10 minutes of seat time on any given day in the last month.

Reminder to self: ask Tamsin if we can stop at a bike shop and buy some anti-chafing cream.