Choose an identity

If you leave a comment on someone's blog (not that you lot'd know because I never get any comments) it asks you to 'choose an identity'.

This made me chuckle and spit pumpkin seeds all over the carpet.

:)

Learning Curve

Today I failed.

I have been doing turbo sessions to try and boost my muscular endurance. Yesterday I was feeling a bit icky so I didn't do my recovery ride. Today I felt a bit better so climbed on the bike and started but from the word go felt odd and it was far harder than it should have been based on last week's attempt.

So I got to the point where I couldn't turn the pedals and crawled off, ashamed. I had only done half.

Rob said he was disappointed. Not because I'd stopped but because I'd got on the bike in the first place. Your health is everything. Without it, no amount of training is going to make you faster.

So now I'm in bed, laptop on, well, lap. I'm doing some PhD work today and will chill for 48 hours before even going near the pedals again. And if I ain't right, I ain't bikin'!

So have I learnt my lesson? Well I want to be a pro so I need to act like one. I'm eating right, dressing right and I've got to treat my body right.

Here endeth the lesson.

Derbyshire

Rach, John, Isobel and Harriet.

I had the most stunning ride in Derbyshire last weekend. I stayed with my friends Rach and John on the way home from working in Stockport and took myself off for a 4 hour 'fun' ride from their home in Belper. It was blustery but dry and I creeped higher and higher up the map towards the High Peak, eventually ending up in Heathersage after 2.5 hours.

I only had to return to Cromford not Belper, so I thought I'd have enough time, and my planning was perfect as I rolled into the Wharf at Cromford after 4hrs and 2 minutes! I had lost my map earlier whilst blowing down a steep hill so had to find the last bit of my route by memory. It was fine. My heart rate looked like a mountain range when I downloaded it!

I am very fond of Derbyshire and in the future would like to move up there. It would be so great to be near Rach and John. They are amazing friends and have a lovely family. Isobel was learning to ride her bike and John had her doing figure of eights in the carpark in Cromford! She only fell of half a dozen times but was full of smiles afterwards! Harriet isn't quit there yet (being only 8 months) but we'll have her signed up for her first triathlon in no time.

Harriet and I bonding. 'She won't be sick, honest...'