Thanks to Kirby we have been re-introduced to some hills and a short route that we have no excuse for not doing in the evenings after work! We set off a week ago on Tuesday for a 20km ride, which I thought would be nice and leisurely. I should have remembered that Kirby's 'not too bad' usually means steep hills that I will struggle to get up and that I'll be red-faced and panting by the time I get to the top! Despite the hills, it was good to be back out and starting to do more challenging rides again. I know we really need to increase our training now, both in terms of the hills and intensity of the rides as well as the length of the rides.
Feeling determined to conquer this, Ant and I set out on the same route again two days later. This time the route didn't seem too bad and not as far as I'd remembered it. Hooray - we're getting back on track! Or so I thought... The next Monday we set out to do the same trip again and I really struggled from start to finish. I felt tired from the start and felt terrified of coming off my bike through the lanes, so I was cycling ridiculously slowly even on relatively easy sections. I was hoping I would get more confident again the more I cycled, but the reverse seems to be happening.
Following that ride I went down with a cold and cough, so I'm hoping it was the onset of the bug that got me down on that ride. We've not done any rides in the last week as we were away at the weekend and I've still been feeling poorly this week. However, in more upbeat news, I am going to collect my new bike tomorrow and we're planning to fit in some more riding this weekend, so fingers crossed it will go swimmingly well (hopefully not literally, having seen the forecast for this weekend!)
I'm afraid I've managed to delete the photos I took on the three rides we did (we did go, honest!) so instead I'm including some photos of our weekends away when we weren't cycling!
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