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Some of the more astute reader (do I have any readers??) will have noticed I have been missing this past week, well after the week I have had I could not give a s**t about blogging. I am not going to go into details except to say that I am a passenger at the moment and I don’t like, I am not enjoying it and I sure as hell want to get off it. Unfortunately being the passenger I don’t have any control so I just have to sit there and watch life control me rather than the other way round.

Monday ended with a rather large weight gain, sure as hell I don’t know where it came from, I had had a good week or at least I thought I had. I am not expecting tomorrows weigh in to be any better as I had an attack of the munchies all damm week and easter with its eggs, hot cross bunny and chocolate is sure as hell not helping (I only had 3 hot cross buns and no easters eggs). I am being pulled from pillar to post and back again at home and at work. I can’t see thing changing much before the end of the week and then it is only a 50\50 chance which I don’t control and if it goes against me then I will sink that little bit further.

Because of the week I have had I am losing the enthusiasm to do anything, I had been planning to ride all four day over easter, checking the weather forecast I could ride on Friday and Saturday if I got up early and rode before the rain. Woke up early on both days, looked out the window and said “sod it” and went back to bed, not because it was raining I just could not be bothered to do it. This morning I had to really drag myself out of the bed to go for a ride and what a disaster that was, decided to do my normal Throop loop, although I was expecting to have to make a diversion over the river at Oakdene as I was expecting it to flooded. Unfortunately I never got that far, Going along the river at Northbourne it was quite flooded, so why on earth did I decided to ride through it. It was deep and it was cold, waterproof boots and waterproof socks are no good when the water is half way up your calfs! So I ended up doing a small loop and going home wet and cold.

The lighter nights are here and I wanted to do a couple of short rides during the early evening to push on with my fitness but again I have not had the interest to do it. I don’t like being like this I want to get on and do things, not sitting around moping about thinking about what might have been.

I am supposed to be doing the charity bike ride on the 25th, I had hoped to have clocked a couple of 25 mile runs in by now but nope, still not hit the mark yet. I had planned to start pushing everybody to start sponsoring me but I just have not been bothered, I want to do it but I feel as though I can’t be bothered at the moment.

Well as I said earlier it is weigh in night tomorrow, not expecting any help from that, just hope it does not seal the weeks events.

Yesterdays bike ride was mud and rain, todays bike ride was mud and flood waters, mind you todays ride was dryer and warmer, I had to stop and take me coat off I was so warm.

I should of taken the hint when the second field I rode into along the river was 3/4 flooded, I had to ride through the water along the edge of the field to the hedge at the top of the field and ride along the top path. I made it back to the river bank path but several short section were under water and at another stage I had to take to the high path again. Even here I got bogged down in mud and had to walk out. I should of realised this was a prelude of what was to come.

My thoughts were on the field I had to ride through on the other side of the river by Throop water mill, last couple of times through there it has been a mud wallowing hole, but as strange as it was when I got to the field it was not as bad as I had expected. I managed to make it to the airport without any mishap.

Just to add a little extra to the distance I decided to do a small loop around Sopley forest This is where I found a puddle where I don’t normally see a puddle, not a problem was ride through it, bad move, I rolled into it and flew over the handlebar out of it!! It was actually a ditch with a vertical side. The rest of this route was a swamp, I was actually glad to get out and back onto the road.

I quickly made my way out of Sopley and headed for Hurn Forest and then down to Oakdene Caravan park, now I should of known that if I am 200yds from the bridge over the river and the entire path is flooded then riding closer to the bridge through the flood water is not going to improve the situation, queue a 180 degree turn and me riding back the way I came, I did not fancy the gravel paths of Hurn forest again so it was the pavements of the A31 via Parley Cross and home for me.

All in all an eventful ride of 18.6 miles which give me a total of 28.9 miles for the weekend riding, here hoping it will help with the weigh in tomorrow night.

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