Too busy to blog!

It's been a busy and odd couple of weeks both on and off the road, what with lots of training, a sunny Glastonbury, a TV interview and being put on risk of redundancy!

A couple of weeks ago Simon and I went on a "Tour de East Sussex", a lovely route from Crystal Palace to Battle, Hastings, Bex Hill, Pevensey, finishing with ice creams on Eastbourne beach. The intention was for me to reach that illusive 100 miles, we didn't quite make it, mainly because we had to keep stopping to map read, but it was a good ride. 

The following week saw me give it another go on the Thursday before Glasto, the route was lovely, but I just didn't feel right and I ended up going home to Mum's falling asleep for the afternoon- very unlike me.

The event is all consuming at the moment. I am finding when not on my bike I am either talking about it, thinking about it, buying stuff for it or sorting it out, so it was great to go to Glastonbury and completely get away from it. I wasn't even tempted to jump on the electricity generating bike in Green Fields!


Monday was a weird day; we got up early, made a mad dash from Glastonbury  to London to get to Si's Mum's 60th. On the side of the A303 I found out I my job is at risk of redundancy, we had birthday tea (v nice), got home and I was on the news, went out for birthday dinner (v nice), got home and I was on the news again!


The redundancy has come at a really bad time with the Etape slap bang in the middle of the months' consultancy period, luckily training should calm down a bit and hopefully I'll be able to work on my CV and apply for jobs etc.


In the middle of this hullabaloo  I accidentally clocked up my 100 miles on Wednesday, ok so I did 30 in the morning and 70 in the evening, but at least it confirms I can do it (I knew I could)!  In hindsight I am really pleased as Wednesday evening was a bit of a low point psychologically for me. We went on a group ride and I got dropped off the back several times (again!), what's more our leader wasn't very encouraging and was actually quite critical. This put me in a really bad place and I was questioning whether I could complete the Etape at all.  A couple of days reflection and a team get together has helped though and I am back to my focused self. Sod him!

We have just over 2 weeks to go now, we do our final long ride this weekend, some intense hill training next week and then that's it, off to climb the Tourmelet! I get butterflies even thinking about it!


So, that's about it for now, I'll post next week with a pic of our new team kit which is really cool, we turned a few heads on Wednesday