Into the final 4 weeks we go.....

Before the 170 mile coast to coast that is.

And I should be just about hitting peak fitness and maintaining that for the last two weeks......and I feel nothing like fit at the moment!

I've taken a couple of days with no alarm clock to try to get a little rest.

I'm tired thanks to trying to cram a heck of a lot into just about every day. I have a couple of big weddings to attend to so a lot of planning goes into them, going to look over the venues, checking mileages and timings and just looking things over so I can plan exactly what we are going to do on the day itself. Then there was the 14 hour marathon wedding on Sunday, lovley couple, great families, loved the day but boy am I tired afterwards! I also have the small matter of a big studio campaign in May for family photography so a box of 5000 leaflets is not going to distibute itself......off out to visit shops and businesses with piles of those on my way to a meeting with a wedding coordinator...

And I am still trying to sell my house. Sold it twice but the chains keep collapsing. It's good that I am still getting interest in the house but preparing it for a viewing takes between 2 and 6 hours and three in a week is a serious amount of time to be doing housework. That's all time that is utterly wasted if the viewer ends up not biting. And time is a rather precious commodity right now.

Add to that the weather. We have had a few nice days in April, here and there, generally when I have been busy elsewhere but generally, cold, grey and when I have had time on my side, wet. Almost into May and I'm only just cutting the grass and the daffodils are still just flowering, trees are not yet in leaf. That tells a story.

So in the last ten days I have managed 25 miles with Kate at Northwich, a spin over to Alderley which is another 25, 20 very hilly miles with Tony and Glen around Rivington which nearly killed me and trust me, does not fill me with optimism about the hills on the coast to coast. And 11 miles over to New Mills just to spin my legs out after the hills. 81 miles in the last ten days is not helping me hit the fitness levels I need.

It's going to be back on the turbo tonight. The weather forecast for the end of the week when I can get some time to go out is rubbish again, cold, wintery and wet with the chance of sleet.

By now we should have had a bunch of nice days where I can get out and do the 50 and 60 mile rides that I need and Im strugglng to get 20 in. It's not helping at all and it is going to make the 170 very hard work indeed.