A week from today we hit the road on the first leg of our Seoul - Busan cross-country trip. I’ve been training in earnest for this since last fall. Start to finish it’s 633 kms; we gave ourselves four days to do it. Grueling, punishing, exhilarating all rolled into one!

It takes a special kind of chutzpah to think I can put my fifty four year old body through this, but my mind says yes and my heart is sworn to it.

Over the last ten months, my greatest teacher has been pain. If you can get to the other side of pain, understand it and overcome it, you always come out tougher and stronger, always a better rider.

Hurt is ignorance; knowledge is healing.

Wether I make it all the way - or not - remains to be seen. But no doubt it will be an unforgettable journey.