The cameraman (Dan) arrived at my house at 04:30 and filmed me leaving the house and cycling up the road. He had a car so kept leap froging me and then filming my progress unitl we reached Southampton Central Station. He postioned himself near the entrance and was filming my approach when a cabbie jumped out of his taxi and demanded to know why he was being filmed! It was expalined that he wasn’t being filmed – just the cyclist. So I had to go back and make the approach to the station again. This time the cabbie kept flashing his headlights as I passed his cab :-( He was spoken to again and asked please not to mess things up again. Back I went again. Take 3 ……. all went well.<\/p>\n
We chatted during the train journey and some of it was filmed. When we got to Winchester Dan had booked a taxi so again did leap frogging to film my journey. The worst bit was when he decided to hang out of the taxi window as the taxi drove slowly in front of, it was on a hill! I wonder if my panting breath will be heard if they show that bit?<\/p>\n
At the Stagecoach Winchester Depot it was agreed that Dan could film me parking the fold up bike, finding my bus in the yard and driving off in it. I thought that was the end of filiming me but once I was home this afternoon I was pounced to record my thoughts on how things had gone. I was quite frank and said that when I arrived at work I did feel wide awake and ready to go, I was surprised that with all the riding (I also did a return trip) that my legs were OK but said on camera that that my backside hurt like hell. As I walk round the house my Missus (Essy) keeps asking “Why are you walking like that?” :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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