a ctc welcome for a slow climber

after best part of 25 years yesterday i thought it time to try a proper club ride,over the past 18 months i have rode with other cyclists but not with a club,so i used to ride with the sheffield da ctc,so found out they were meeting meadow head

so 9.30 on time to be welcomed with the gift of thier latest magazine,thankyou.

a familiar face in pat wilson,and the rest of the crowd welcomed me with coments that they had never had a recumbent trike ride with them before and over the day i found out why,recumbent and road bikes dont mix with hills ,recumbent was far too slow up hill,but credit due they waited (regulaly)for me to catch up at the top.

ctc still means cafe to cafe glad to see, with 3 cafe stops things havent altered that much,realy enjoyed myself,but as the afternoon wore on i decided to let the bunch go ahead and i opted for the main roads home.(thanks for the concerns over my welfare but i honestley felt fine just needed to let you lads and lasses get on rather than waiting for me on every hill)

up the a61 may sound a bad choice of roads but on the trike i do find traffic does not bother me even climbing dronfield by pass i was not alarmed,arriving at the top to catch a glance of two of the riders on a side track that i had left earlier so im glad i let them get off without me.i arrived back at meadow head just before dark,fine result.although riding in the dark doesnt bother me as most of my cycling is done after work in the dark.

once again if anyone from the sheffield ctc is reading thanks for the day out.

how low can you go

well thanks to lombard finance i had to make my self bancrupt on tuesday 25/1/11.

thought i would feel better when it was over,but it was like a birthday it comes it goes but you dont realy feel much different.

realy need to get out on bike to cheer me up or atleast get away from it all for a day.

restarting my diet this week may have been a mistake looks like its going to cost me tonight when i get on the scales.at least ian will be pleased

roll on may

25 days into 2011 and im wishing it away already.with every day i wake(or should i say get up from where i lay) i seem to get another problem,stressing me out.its 10 past 2 in the morning i cant sleep,i so want to sleep.im just hoping that come dinnertime today the pressure is off.i just want 14may here so i can go into my own little world,20 days of nothing more than wondering which way to go south,east, west but hopfuly not north after arriving at dunnit head(most northerly point on british mainland),roll on may,

feel like a condemed man waiting for my punishment,had my last drink,had my last meal,no sleep for the wicked just time to ponder where i went wrong,can i turn back time sell my soul if it would work i would but it wont,but one day i could be a millionaire,might even get to wear a bat man suit,they had a dream too(but whos my rodney or am i just some elses plonker)

tangents,neshlectavarda just to stop me swearing.is my jogle a way to the past or a route to my future,

people keep asking why,but then admire my intentions with out me answering their question,or does every one get to a point they need a jogle,a piontless excersise with little meaning apart from self indulgent satisfaction(although st lukes will benifit).

are you still here i havnt bored you yet with my meaning less drivel,laid here writting this listerning to vintage pop on tv,nostalgic, julie would say depressing cos im sure they have took the play list from my ipod.so someone out there has a simular taste in music mind it is 3am so perhaps its just for me,is there anybody out there,8 hrs to go and counting,no one on facebook must be all asleep,why are waiting hours longer than busy hours,why even ask i ask myself.

back soon reputation in tatters no doubt

competition dieting back on

ian the brother in law and myself have started dieting again,and just to make it intresting the loser each week pays the difference in pounds,the losser pays in sterling to our respective carities.
working in morning,wide load to ponds street then out on trike,did try using road bike for winter but the trike maybe slower but boy is it much cumfier
got new panniers so may not need to take trailer trying to all tackle on trike next week as a practise

MICHAEL HOPLEY is fundraising for St Luke's Hospice (Sheffield)

MICHAEL HOPLEY is fundraising for St Luke's Hospice (Sheffield)