BACK on the bike but everything’s changed

FINALLY out on a bike ride 🌟

In this video I discuss my season altering revelation and share plans for the rest of the year

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Morning hope you’re doing really really well I cannot believe it I am actually leaving the house and going on a bike ride the last six weeks have just been absolutely terrible to be honest uh had a couple of weeks off at Christmas where I was pretty poorly I just had to kind

Of keep going and then I had a week in January where I was just beginning to ride real slow recovery rides and stuff and get out on little hikes with Laura and then bam bam I got struck down with another bout of illness but this time really really badly so um it’s been

Absolutely rotten starts of the year to be honest I’ve not been outside I mean I’ve barely been out and I’ve spent a lot of time in bed I just felt my fitness dropping off a cliff Edge all my plans have been spoiled ah but anyway today I am finally feeling better so I’m

Going to head outside in the sun on my gravel bike and do a short easy ride and tell you more about what my new plans are so let’s Go oh my God it is so cold it’s making me cry I’ve got tears running down my face Garmin says it says it’s .8 de C no wonder I’m cold we decided to head straight up a hill to try and warm up a little bit which brings with it its own

Challenges the main one that I can’t breathe properly after so much inactivity and kind of chesty cough and stuff so I’m trying not to push too hard cuz my coach has said I really need to take it easy for the next couple of weeks no finally starting to warm Up It feels so good to be out I fear I may have been slightly difficult to live with over the last few weeks I didn’t say what Sam’s remaining silent the thing is Sam would say I think you need to go for a ride obviously it’s like your therapy and it makes you feel

Better but then I couldn’t go for a ride cuz I felt so shitty so it’s like a double whammy of feeling got that way yeah feeling poorly and well miserable um but not being able to deal with The Misery by going for a bike ride which then of course makes you more

Miserable also unfortunately I’ve had to pull out of the first race of the Season which I was really looking forward to so I was going to be heading to the Canary Islands to race across all five Islands as quickly as I could as part of grand granch route

And because of this damn bug or whatever I’ve had see I’m getting out of breath just talking to you now I’ve had to pull out of that so that that didn’t really help my mood okay Sam yeah please don’t canel please leave us alone we go

Away well as luck would have it I do still have the flights booked so land areti so I am going I’ll go for some sun riding and rest try and recover but I won’t be doing the Race should I go to the start and see everyone off or is

That just going to make me bummed should I just stay away from the race right go see them off yeah yeah don’t be a grouch just cuz I’m not in it is that what you’re Saying this used to be one of our favorite little gravel tracks no gravel just very flat compacted gravel they’ve decided to pave over it this is just a Road it’s really really disappointing I heard that they were improving the trail so it’s more accessible something that obviously I support but they’ve just just put a bloody Great Road through through the woods I mean that’s not a Woodland Trail what Disappointment coffee yeah where’d you want to go Port espresso so good to be out in the sun still a little bit croaky so it is good that I canel my brace whilst I’m waiting for my coffee I figured I would tell you the events I am hopefully doing this

Year um fingers cross I don’t have to cancel them because of being poorly again um the first one super duper exciting is a women’s gravel Safari in Sri Lanka at the start of March so this is a fully inclusive um guided tour with women guides which will take you through

Some of Sri Lanka’s most beautiful Parts amazing gravel roads some Road days also there’ll be Wildlife there’ll be you know cultural and Heritage sites we’re going to go to the beach you can go surfing there’s yoga it’s just trip of a lifetime type thing so I will put a link

To that one we’ve left it a little bit late to launch it’s in a month ah the coffee’s arrived and s’s eating all the cake in the background I’m going to hurry up fingers cross we can get that Sri Lanka trip rocking because we left

It a little bit late to launch to be honest anyway after that I’m going to be out and in California at seaotter with Marin very excited about that I’m doing pan Celtic races gravel rally in Wales then I’m off to finale laguri for a mountain bike holiday pretty excited

About that one before going bike packing in Slovenia with sisters in the wild July I’m planning on doing trans ay or air I don’t know how you say it um like the new bike packing route that goes from huntler but North so I’ve already done the trans cambian way this kind of

Is a continuation that goes further north looks really fun and I’ll be doing that with Laura in August I’m racing fix 42 on my well fixed gear bike so that’ll be fun in Berlin taking it back to my roots before heading out to Canada for Trans Rockies gravel Royale September is biking man

Brazil and then I will round out the Year by heading back to the canaries to do Grand Guan Trail so that’s the mountain bike version of the race that I was me to do in January any I’m going to leave it at that because Sam’s in there

He’s got the coffee and the cake and I want to go hang out with him so so I will say goodbye it’s been really nice talking to you again I hope you’re all doing well and better than me I hope um let’s chat soon

Bye oh man so good to be out in the s still a little bit croaky so it is good that I canceled my brace um but super excited about getting out to lanzerotti next week still can’t decide whether to take the road bike or the gravel bike

Both have their advantages um Road I’m thinking is just a little bit simpler and I won’t have to do quite as much root planning also maybe it’s potentially a little bit easier on my body which kind of needs taken care of at the moment gravel of course well I just like riding

Off road it’s a lot of fun so do let me know if you’ve got any insights into L gravel well of course it’s just a lot of fun and I I really enjoy doing it um but anyway whilst I’m waiting for my coffee I figured I would tell you the

Events I am hopefully doing this year um finger squat I don’t have to cancel them because of being poorly again um the first one super duper exciting is I’m meant to be running a women’s gravel Safari in Sri Lanka at the start of March so this is a fully inclusive um

Guided tour with women guides which will take you through some of Shri Lanka’s most beautiful Parts amazing gravel roads some Road days also there’ll be Wildlife there’ll be you know cultural and Heritage sites we’re going to go to the beach you can go surfing there’s yoga it’s just trip of a lifetime type

Thing so I will put a link to that one we’ve left it a little bit late to launch so I’m worried that um we um might not be able to do it in March or might not I think we possibly left it a little bit too late to launch this one

It’s in a month and I don’t know how we’re going to get enough signups fingers crossed we can get ah the coffee’s arrived and s’s eating all the cake in the background I’m going to hurry up so fingers crossed we can get that Sri Lanka trip rocking

Because we left it a little bit late to launch to be honest so I might have to go out there and do a wrecking myself postpone the group ride I’ll let you know but anyway after that I will be out at seaotter I’m going to be there with Marin bikes who

Um anyway after that I’m going to be out in California at seaotter very very excited about that I have [Applause] got anyway after that I’m going to be out in California at sea otter with Marin very excited about that I’m doing pan Celtic races gravel rally in Wales then I’m off to finale

Lur for a mountain bike holiday pretty excited about that one before going bike packing in Slovenia with sisters in the Wild July I’m planning on doing trans ay or Airy I don’t know how you say it um like the new bike packing route that goes from huntler but North so I’ve already done the trans cambian way this kind of is a continuation that goes further north looks really fun and I’ll

Be doing that with Laura in August I’m racing fixed 42 in August I’m racing fixed 42 on my well fixed gear bike so that’ll be fun in Berlin taking it back to my roots before heading out to Canada for Trans Rockies gravel Royale September is biking man Brazil

And then it’ll finish September is biking man Brazil and then I will round out the Year by heading back to the canaries to do Grand Guan Trail so that’s the mountain bike version of the race that I was me to do in January anyway I’m going to leave it at that

Sam’s in there he’s got the coffee and the cake and I want to go hang out with him um so it’s been so I will say goodbye it’s been really nice talking to you again hope you’re all doing well and better than me I hope um let’s chat soon bye oh