Week 14 - A Little Ray of Sunshine

Monday, 2 April

Today I met up with the East Lancs LDWA lot for a group walk, entitled 'A Little Ray of Sunshine'.  The title was highly deceptive as the weather was rotten.  It was sleety, windy and rainy.  Due to the weather, Norman, the walk leader, decided to take a different, more low level route than he had originally planned.

It was a lovely walk, despite the weather, and from the start at Wallsuches we headed over to White Coppice via Anglezarke Reservoir, coming back through Healey Nab.

I love these group walks, everyone is so friendly and it's a good laugh.  I just have to get my clothing right!  I forget that it isn't as fast moving a walk as when I'm on my own and there is also much more stopping (I tend not to stop but to eat on the go) so I found that I didn't have enough layers on and kept getting cold.  As a seasoned walker/runner though, I do carry extra kit in my bag so when we had a lunch stop at White Coppice I put on an extra top and swapped into some dry gloves, which made a world of difference.

Total distance - 14.75 miles 


Wednesday, 4 April 

Finally got back to an altitude spin class today, however it soon became apparent that my rib pain was being exacerbated.  Fortunately, it only hurt when I was doing the standing sections so I did my own thing and stayed sitting for the rest of the session.  I actually made the session harder for myself because I still used the same gears as the guys standing were using and it is incredibly hard work sitting down in gears 20+.  Good training for mountain biking though!


Friday, 6 April

Another spin class today!  Go me!  I went to the morning session though and I wasn't half feeling Wednesday's session in my legs still.  They felt really heavy.  I came alive after about 20 minutes though and had another good session, although I did continue to stay seated during the standing sections.  As long as I do this and stay hunched forward, my ribs don't hurt at all.


That's it for this week, unless I can include moshing at a rock gig (Massive Wagons in Glasgow on Sunday night) as exercise?