Another griping installment#

Fri, 23 May 2008 01:17:04 +0000

I can't remember all of what went on since the 11th, but a miracle cure wasn't part of it.

In recent memory

Tuesday 13th: calendar says there must have been an RC, can't remember it though

Friday: the plan was to spend Friday evening truing the wheels on the Firebrox, then pub for dinner, then down to Hyde Park Corner for the FNRttC. As it turned out, the wheels on the Firebrox where considerably less functional than expected - lots of spokes broken just inside the nipple. Looks rather as though two of them were in the wrong holes as well, which can't really have been contributing to even tension. So, go to pub, go directly to pub, do not collect spoke key.

Then the FNRttC, which was the first time I've used my summer bike since I put a trainer tyre on it back in December with the (completely unrealised) intention of getting fit over the winter. There seems to be a fundamental(sic) incompatibility between its saddle and my sitbones, to the point that I was actually looking forward to Ditchling Beacon as an opportunity to get out of the saddle. Also - I think I said the other day that my wrist was completely healed after accident in March? Wrong: not sufficiently healed that it liked 60 miles of road vibrations through my handlebar. Still, got to Brighton about 7am or just as the rain started, and was able to sit under the arches on the promenade eating full English breakfast. Can't be beat.

Saturday: slept

Sunday: Skated into town, in speedskates, to find some new bits for an LFNS lead. Then Stroll, which was going nicely until tripped up by a skater who veered right into my path exactly as I was passing her, sore in three places (now two)

Tuesday: skated into town for RC, did RC. Bizarrely, was getting the kind of weird hip pain I usually associate with my dodgy adductor in the other leg. Should be a good route, though (well, I would say that).

Wednesday: thoroughly sore, skipped LondonSkate as the prospect of skating over bridges into headwinds didn't really appeal.

Friday (tomorrow by my clock, today by GMT): first LFNS lead since my injury. Let's hope it works.