Day 0: Registration

 Today was a day of last minute bike changes, and then the rush of the registration and the realisation that we're finally there, and this is about to begin. This is me and my biking buddy Mike, who I did most of the training with.

 The armbands made the whole things feel even more like a music festival than it did already. This marks me as having done the safety training, being registered for the ride, and being a registered vegetarian (this latter one gave me access to the express vegetarian queues!)

And here's Julian who got caught by the wardrobe people and got to experience how it feels being turned into Nancy Reagan in less than 5 minutes.