Well what a difference a bike makes! After reading about my first-time-on-a-road-bike struggle, an old friend Jenny who was in my year at Uni, but who I haven’t seen for years, contacted me to lend her support. Clearly the bike I tried last week, which was very kindly donated, was much too big for me, and frankly I’m slightly surprised I made it home alive. Jenny is a proper athlete and previous iron man-er, but currently recovering from injury, and has hugely generously donated me a (smaller) road bike, plus about enough (new) other bits and bobs that would enable…

So it turns out road cycling is quite stressful. Had my first shot on a road bike today. Couldn’t really put it off any longer as it’s less than 3 months till the cycle to Skye. (This is my next challenge, which I signed up for ages before the marathon – it seemed like a very long way away at the time). Yikes.  A (terribly fit and good at cycling) friend has very kindly lent me one of her lesser bikes to practise on. I’ve been looking at it with a degree of trepidation for the last three weeks as…