Well, slamming on the anchors for now.
Bit of a difficult blog
post to write this one but for the time being I'm going to have to
postpone my efforts to complete all of the remaining 100 Greatest
Climbs. Things haven't been going well for some time with regard to
getting the time away from home to get the final few rides completed
and after I had to call off a trip up to the North East earlier in
June because of a few issues at home those issues have only become
worse. To edit a long and difficult chain of events into a simple
sentence; my dad is quite unwell at the moment. I was worried about
leaving him at home when I was due to go away in June and called off
the planned trip. Fast forward to the end of July and I ended up having to go
all emergency services and call an ambulance for him. It turned out to be far less dramatic than it looks on the telly but was nonetheless stressful.
Nearly six weeks on some of
the problems my dad is facing have been sorted, some have not and it
is clear that any plans I had for a cheeky trip up North this autumn in an attempt to get things back on track are well and truly out of the window. Right now I have neither the
time or energy going spare to finish of the remaining climbs and I'm
not sure when I'm likely to have either. I should be in the finishing
strait by now (well, I should have been some time ago but life has
rather gotten in the way) but things have gone a bit Pete Tong.
I am still getting out
on my bike but not as much as I would like or my sanity requires; my
energies need to be directed elsewhere at the moment. Besides, my
touring bike is in need of a full rebuild, my single speed has a
knackered wheel, I've managed to break my hack bike and a simple
repair job on my folder resulted in me having to take a hacksaw to
it. Yes, my bicycle maintenance skills remain top notch as ever; I
still have to pluck up the courage to explain the whole hacksaw thing
to my local bike shop.
My Dahon post angry hacksaw moment. That'll learn it.
Anyway, thats all for
now. I'm pretty gutted at everything that has happened recently but rest assured I will be back to complete the remaining
climbs but not for a while. Other things have to come first right now.
