Lydia - my companion on the next challenge! I feel a little shy as I write this. I can hardly believe that it's been 9 months since my last post. Are you all still there I wonder? Well, of course you are. You are the most loyal of folk, my friends, who have stood firmly by my side through a difficult time. So first of all I say a huge THANK YOU to every one of you - I wouldn't have survived it without you. I've had a pretty inactive summer, with injury stopping my swimming and severely limiting any training in the gym. This meant pulling out of the Humber Bridge 100k cycle and the Loch Ard 3k swim. However cutting back on training did give me time to renew my love of sketching and sewing so my creative side has flourished somewhat and this has helped me focus on regrouping my thoughts and processing the events of the past 18 months. So now we've all caught up - what's next???? Those of you who know my family will be aware that I am the lucky owner of 5 big brothers, all of whom are amazing and supportive. One of the bros, Jim (aka Dondy) and myself have had several conversations about completing a challenge together; a real brother sister bonding experience. Dondy is my cycling hero having completed the incredible Land's End to John O'Groats cycle a few years ago, so I knew that whatever he came up with would indeed be challenging! So we are in the very early planning stages of our sibling challenge and, whilst we are not ready to divulge details just yet, I can say that this is going to be a challenge of EPIC proportions and is really more of a expedition than a challenge. A sibling cycling expedition (hmmm catchphrase?). A very personal pilgrimage for me and my bro. I have already purchased my "century" cycling shorts with extra padding and am attempting to put together a training plan which will see me increasing my cycle miles considerably over the coming months. If any of you lovely folk have any training advice to offer please feel free to throw it my way as I am going to need all the help I can get. I shall be posting regular blog updates on training, together with more details of the expedition as we firm things up and I sincerely hope that you will be offering the fabulous support and motivation that got me through the Monster Swim. Perhaps the blog name should be changed to Fat Girl Cycles????
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