Another bonkers start to the week (5 hours of continuous chairing of meetings) and I was shattered when I got home. In the past I would use getting out on the bike to de-stress and recharge those mental batterys but for the last few months a 20 minute turbo session is about all I could muster due to my back. Sitting in the rear of the garage in front of a 6 year old episode of Top Gear didn’t really appeal when the sun was shining over a Cannock Chase waking from its winter slumber.
In the end I went for a 35 min pootle out through the lanes to the Haywood villages and then back over the major tracks on The Chase. Though a bit headwindy on the way out it was great to get the wind in my lack of hair again and it was another chance to get used to the E5 which I can now categorically say is much comfier over speed bumps. I even had a touch of hay fever (Silver Birch Pollen gets me) when I got home which was a positive for a change!
Now time for some core stability exercises, lumbar traction and ibuprofen as payback….
2 weeks to my consultant appointment now….