Well, I finally got back on my bike today after 10 weeks off due to distraction, bad weather, laziness, family illness and bereavement. I had arranged a ride from Hebden Bridge to the Country Kitchen cafe in Waddington, taking mainly valley roads rather than my beloved local hills because there is still ice in places [...]
Well, I didn’t get any rides done before tomorrow’s CycleChat forum ride, but I did at least get away from my computer and did two more walks to Heptonstall. Yesterday, I power-walked it to meet Lisa for lunch at the cafe. We just walked straight down to the shops in town afterwards. Today, I did [...]
I’m having a bad winter! I think I’d have been struggling anyway even without my mum getting ill and dying, but that has really got me down and now I’m struggling to get going again…
It was pretty gloomy down in the valley today, but I walked up to Heptonstall with Lisa this afternoon and the village and the surrounding hills were actually bathed in broken sunshine. I left Lisa there and walked back down the hill to go to the shops. My leg muscles are a bit stiff now, [...]
I’m retro-posting this a week into the New Year. As you can imagine, I’ve had a lot of things on my mind since my mum died and updating the blog doesn’t seem very important at the moment.