Some good can come from my insanity

I get asked why, at my age, am I taking on 170 miles of cycling?

Why not? Well that is my answer. Just because I am the wrong side of 40 by a distance with a wonky liver and only three ligaments in one knee......still, why not!

But one thing I have learned as I have gone through this life of mine. Not everyone is as fortunate to be able to jump on a bike and go and do something daft because they want to.

I have seen some darker times along the way. The death of my husband and both my parents. Coming very, very close to not being around myself. If it were not for the skill of a very competent surgeon and anaesthetist I would not have seen any of the last 7 years.

So I resolved that some good should come from my silliness and it honestly does help when at 9pm you have to go and sweat on a trainer for an hour when a glass of wine is so much more appealing......so I decided that MacMillan Nurses should be the recipient of every penny I can coax, cajole and blackmail people out of. I'm going to do their cycletta event which is 37 miles the week before the 170 and roll the two together for fundraising. So 207 miles is my new target :)

MacMillan were there for me when I needed help the most and that 207 miles will be for them.