in 9 weeks in a couple of hours i will be chugging out of wokingham in the Humber heading for dover through bracknell around the bottom of the M25 for the friday night traffic for my 21:30 speedferries on the 13th.
No convoy for me, just the 2 of us in the old girl spearing through the night for day break on bleu on the morning of the race. I shall then nod off whilst watching hotel porn on sunday 15th in the small hours in the Hotel Alba in Roeun after a night of debauchery in the town. 
And then i am on the 23.30 or something boat back to blighty on the monday night after cruising the beaches and cheap booze emporiums of northern france finished with a lovely supper in Bologne. 
Not long now  
