I have not been anywhere near my bike since getting home on Sunday. My knees are shot. Both knees are still swollen, the left is much worse than the right, but both are a little better than they were on Sunday. I guess it is only to be expected. Way back before Easter my knee flared up after I had ridden quite hard for a week or so. Back then I stopped straight away and rested it; back then, it took a week to stop hurting all the time, and then another week of very low level riding for it to stop hurting when I rode. So as this time I continued to ride for another 400 miles or so after my knee flared up so it’s understandable that it is likely to continue hurting for a little while longer than it did last time. They are starting to feel a bit better. It’s now more of a constant dull ache with the odd bit of pain when I move in the wrong way, rather than constant pain and the odd bit of big pain when I move the wrong way. It’s worse when I have been sat for a while and I need to get up, I must look proper comical as I have to slowly easy my way to standing, being careful not to move anything too quickly.
Still the signs are good, I have been going to and from work in the car and each time I pass a cyclist I have experienced a pang of jealousy. I want to be back on the bike. I was not sure it a week in the saddle would have put me off but clearly it hasn’t. I was hoping to have a go at a 10 mile time trail next Wednesday but I do not think that will be happening, maybe the fortnight after.
Money is coming in quite well. There are a few people who are not quite as forthcoming with cash as they were promises of cash but I am sure it will continue to trickle in.