I have to praise myself for having the get up and go after dropping my kids off at school for the day to get my bike out for another ride......how did I feel when I first set off?? Like crying if I'm honest!! My thighs are burning with fatigue and my calfs were joining in sympathetically, but I still pushed on.....the new programme on my ipod seemed to be monitoring my distance so I cycled away but on leaving my estate I realised the distance had stuck at .56 miles and wasnt budging..grrrrrr....I continued on a different route today...very muddy to say the least but the child in me started to come out a little while I was skidding on the muddy banks and messing with my back brakes :-) .
I carried on cycling all be it a bit slow and I was in pain I decided I wasnt going to let myself down and that I would follow the path until the time said 30 mins then return home meaning although I wasnt necerssarily going to beat my distance record, I was doing an hour worth of cardio exercise even while I was struggling........
Once again the scenery was beautiful and luckily I had remembered my camera today :-).....the path I was following was a much flatter and in my opinion for the level I am at a much better route :-) There were a couple of steepish hills and I successfully cycled to the top of nearly two of them....I say nearly but on my second hill just seconds from the top my chain came off and I nearly did myself an injury :-s
My gears started crunching for the rest of the way and I decided not to try anymore hills until my new bike comes because I didnt fancy being stuck in the middle of no where with a broken bike or even worse a broken bone :-o
Anyway I gotta mention on this ride I also started feeling extremely queasy not sure if that is normal or not but I honestly thought I was going to have to stop and be sick :-s
Not the best ride today, but at least I made the effort and I did an hour of exercise :-).......lets hope Thursday is a better ride ......
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