Speedy Recovery!

The dreadful cold and chest infection which laid me low kept me off my bike for the best part of a month.  My bucket emptied, so to say, and right down to the muck at the bottom.

My first ride after the enforced break was a shortish, flattish ride on the tandem.  I coughed and spluttered throughout, and was exhausted by the half-way mark.  But my husband’s strong legs looked after me, though he was only a week ahead of me in his recovery, and he’d been just as exhausted as I was only a week earlier. 

This weekend was our second post-recovery ride.  We’d had the opportunity to leave the van in Chester on Friday night, and the weather forecast for Saturday was for a deteriorating day.  So we set off early to ride a one-way route to Chester, the tailwind and the terrain assisting us. 

We flew!  We really sped along, and I don’t think I coughed more than half a dozen times.  I felt so much better than just one week before - tailwinds really are quite magical!  Best of all, the rain waited until we’d closed the van door to begin our drive home before coming down in truckloads.

So perhaps my fitness-bucket wasn’t as empty as I thought. I hope not anyhow, as we have only a few weeks to get ourselves into condition for a challenging two week tour of Scotland.  It’ll be great, though I’ll be surprised if the weather proves as advantageous to us as it did on Saturday!