Thanks to everyone who read this blog last week, especially those who left kind words of encouragement. I'll try to write more regularly but you know I've made this promise before. As usual the blog will follow the format of a family update and then some cycling stuff!
Lee has been unwell again! For a long time since leaving hospital Lee's lungs have been relatively healthy, she does have reduced function but her asthma is well controlled and she hasn't had many chest infections...until now! This one has hung around for a couple of weeks and has needed steroids and antibiotics!
In better news it's been Amy's birthday. She requested my home made pizzas for her birthday meal and to compliment these Lee made a salted caramel toffee popcorn cake. Sam was home too so we had a right cookathon. Amy is coeliac and that comes with the challenge of making a gluten free base and cake. Having used pre made gluten free bases before I bought a ready mix pack to try to make it more special.
Well I won't be doing that again! I used the pack above and it was rubbish. It doesn't make a dough, it's more like cake mix that you pour out. Sometimes it's better to stick to what you know!
One of the benefits of life as an independent therapist is that I give myself Tuesdays off. From September to January this means I have time to go to Corby Capers, our cyclocross training session. For the rest of the year it means I can join the Good Bean Rides. So called because the meeting point is the Good Bean Cafe in Corby.
My first GBR back was a very hilly trip that ended up as a 100km fondo. It's was my longest ride of the year so far and definitely a lot of fun! The elevation for a place without mountains is huge...we climbed the equivalent of Ben Oss a Munro in the Grampians...not quite the height of snowdon but well in excess of Scafell Pike. Our coffee stop was to the Pickled Village in Bulwick It's a really nice place but we did catch them out by having 12 cyclists turn up all at once!
I also give myself Thursday morning off. This is great because we have a weekly mountain bike ride in Wakerley and Fineshade Woods. Big credit must go to Alan Brown for thinking up and leading these rides. It doesn't get boring because the woods, being weather and season dependent, are never the same too weeks running. This week it was gloriously sunny but also incredibly muddy!!!
Today we had an extra special Sunday club run. It's the cyclocross world championship weekend and the plan was to get back to the club house before the u23 female and men's elite races. We had another very hilly loop around the Welland Valley, a nice coffee stop at Rural Relaxing in Medbourne.
The RFW clubhouse is just lovely. It's a little stone building with a bar, TV screens, changing and training facilities and a very nice log burner. With good company, food and great beer on offer it would have been easy to spend all afternoon there...I'm sure some of my clubmates are still there now! I came home after the u23 because there's always stuff to do...I watched the men's elite race doing the ironing!
My objective this week was to increase my distance so I can make a big dent in the #nhs1000miles. 151 miles this week compared to 60ish last week! If you're wondering why I still do this after leaving the NHS...well I asked and everyone said they wanted me to carry on! I'm hoping to get that 1000 miles done some time in March!
Happy Pedalling
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