It's been some time now between posts and many of you must be wondering what's been happening now that it's early May.
After much thought and discussion, we have decided to postpone The Long Road Tour until April 2012. We are both disappointed that we have to wait a little longer before our Tour can begin but know that it is the best thing for us to do, for a few reasons.
Unfortunately earlier in the year Jason suffered sprained ligaments in his ankle, an injury which put restrictions on preparations and training for the task ahead, and the risk of further injury during the ride was far to high if it hadn't been left to heal properly.
Also the extra time allows us to get more businesses involved in supporting us and more time to raise extra money for our chosen charities. Putting a 10,000+ km ride together takes a large amount of preparation so with the extra time now available to us, we have decided make our tour bigger and better than originally planned, with some major changes in the works.
These include a slightly longer and modified tour route and itinerary that hope will help to reach a greater audience to which we can promote our worthy causes. Some exciting news regarding sponsorship: We have been in discussions with a major Australian business who is interested in sponsoring our journey, pushing the tour back to 2012 has enabled greater opportunities to obtain further support from this organisation. So really our disappointing decision has a silver lining. Unfortunately at this present time we are unable to publicly release many more details but stay tuned.
While we were at it we also decided to add a pre-tour ride to our new itinerary. A short tour from Adelaide to Melbourne here in Australia, which we have started to plan and aim for early 2012. The intention of this additional ride is to help promote the main ride and push the message further. It is also a fantastic opportunity for us to gauge where we are at with our preparation, as well as test the gear we will be using while on the main tour.
So to our followers and fans we would like to thank you for your support to date, don't lose heart, we are pushing ahead with our plans and hope to make the journey even better than what we originally thought.
