With B’s Auntie’s wedding taking place on Saturday 20th June (my birthday!!), we planned to stay for the week and do some training with coach, mentor and long-time friend of the family Pierre-Yves who had prepared a gruelling plan for me to follow! We loaded up the car with wetsuits and bicycle, as well as clothes, on the 19th and headed once again for Portsmouth. Nearing the port, I tried to spot the route we had taken by bike and ended up taking a wrong turn! We soon rectified that and headed onto the Brittany Ferries boat and onwards on a lengthy, and somewhat boring, crossing to Le Havre!