Friday, 12 September 2008

It's all going bloody wrong!! :-(

I don't know? Nothing's going right! I hurt my ribs again on that last ride in Mid Wales. I had a week after that booked off work which went out the window and it rained the entire week! My dog hadn't been 100% so we took him to the vets. He was x-rayed and they discovered a lump in his bladder. It turned out to be a benign cancer. So £700 later he had that removed cleanly (bang goes that full sus bike I had half an eye on!) The one thing that is going right is that he's bouncing back at a rate of knots. My wife started a new job this week and it transpires she needs a lift in in the mornings because of the time she has to be there. So it looks like it's bang goes my cycling to work. I'm 2 weeks without a bike ride and that was going to be the gentle way back to full off-road mode for my injured ribs. Scuppered! Daylight's disappearing at a rate of knots! That Indian Summer never materialised! And I think the clutch is going on my main car!! :-(

I've plotted out my routes from the Mid-Wales trip on bikely.com. Below is route 1 from a week last Monday. It's an OK route, but not outstanding.





Route 2 below from last Friday has been tweaked heavily from the route I took, and is a much better route. Well worth doing if I'm ever up that way again.



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