All the Gear and No idea!

Well its official I cant sit down!! And the thought of sitting on a saddle is making me feel quite weak!!


I finally upgraded my Mums bike for a "proper" road bike! And at the same got myself all of the "gear" - Gloves, Helmet, on bike computer thingy, water bottle, clothes, padded shorts!

Steves comment "All the gear and no idea!" and never a truer word spoken!

I look like I could leave tomorrow and take part in the Tour de France until I start to pedal!!

But I did manage to complete 28.5 miles yesterday! And yes the .5 is very, very important! I did it in 2 hours 20 minutes which isn't bad but would have been alot quicker if it wasn't for the damn hills! or in fact the inclines!

I now look at roads very differently when I'm out driving and notice the inclines! I bet many of you didn't realise that Chobham high street has one! And yes you may laugh but when your coming home all you want is down hill!!

Whilst out yesterday I was going to pop in and see a friend until I remembered she lived on a hill and that put a stop to that! Will have to phone her instead! Sorry Clare!

So...... for all of those of you who have sponsored me then thank you and for those of you who haven't here is the website site.

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/arctoarch

I'm really trying to raise as much money as possible for the Kidney charity as possible. They have been already an amazing support and strength to me and it is so important that this bike ride raises as much as possible, so they can help many more unfortunate families when they are living with this terrible disease.

Unfortunately Steve is not doing great at the moment. He is now suffering terribly at night with the pain from the tumour of where his Kidney was taken out. He cant sleep all the way through the night even with the medicine. We have been trying so many different things that our cupboard is so full of medicine that I have had to buy Steve one of those pill boxes with the days of the week on it!

It is so sad when you let it be. If you think things through to much then it can make you feel terribly low but most of the time you take it in your stride and deal with it as though it was perfectly normal. On a positive note his rib now appears to be healed.

He will start back on Sutent next week, as the hospital wanted him to have one more week off to try and get him back to feeling better.

So he has gone away for a rest and some motherly pampering to Spain for a few days which we are both hoping will do the trick.

So a chance for me to get a full nights sleep and some more biking in! Oh and of course work! And a chance for Steve and his parents to spend some time together.