Best Laid Plans It’s November 2015 and my good friend and top adventure companion Colin asks if I’d like to enter the YorkshireDales300. “What’s it all about?” I asked, Colin replied ‘we need to do a bivi ride covering 300km in the Yorkshire Dales over 3 days’. Stupidly, I say ‘Sounds brill – let’s do it!’ Fast forward to February and we’re out on our 2 nd bivi of the year complaining that it isn’t cold enough and we got chatting about the YD300 again. Colin then mentions that the event is over 2 days and that we might need to train. In 5 years of weekly riding Colin has never mentioned the ‘train’...