Resilience for every Kilometer!
Week 23rd-30th of august
The first week my target was 750m elevation, It was easier than I thought overall. Although I did it over 6 days rather than the original five because I had foot trouble, the issue was not enough velcro, which made the foot slide forwards and come undone (that was such a hassle having to stop and do it up every time!) also it was making my knee swell and get inflamed on the inner (medial) side. As a result, it was making lose quite a bit of power which meant it was making me rely on my left side to take most of the load, a fair bit of effort involved! It’s all sorted now, we just modified with some more velcro.
We’ve managed to finally write something up in the pitch, thanks to help from some good friends. We ended up just doing it in PowerPoint form and it was alongside a media release that was done during the national stroke week (second week).
At the same time, I’ve done the filming for my experience on mental toughness/resilience, and now I’ve handballed the editing off to a friend.
How do I feel about everything… a bit more relaxed, like everything is a bit more achievable with just getting things off the bike done. I’m not so worried about the bike, I believe at the moment that I’m very capable to do the actual riding part.
Week 31st-6th of September
This last week, the second week has been a solid week, probably the best week of all in the mini 8 weeks training! It might have something to do with it have been national stroke week, maybe I’m not sure….! Anyway I did 160km’s over 5 days, generally I’ve been starting bike training on Tuesday giving me a two-day rest of the Sunday-Monday. I hit that weekly goal with ease.
On the two legs, not the three wheels.
With it being national stroke week (31st-6th), I’ve been hoping that some sort of media would have covered my story in TV form with my media release, to give it more magnitude of what I’m doing, however, I didn’t hear anything from that area. But I did have an interview from a lovely person in the news daily that will be released next Sunday, I’m very excited about that!
The feels….
I’m very excited about the online news from the news daily, I cant wait to see what the writer comes up with! With the pitch pretty much done, it’s all about approaching the business’s with specific partnership’s, that I can cope with however I’m feeling a little bit pressured with the time ticking and also it being till October-November until we start going back to some sort of normality from this COVID…. I’m trying to back myself and soothe it by saying ‘it’s okay we’ve got time and I can only do what’s within my power at this given time’, that’s all you can do.
I’m feeling really confident with my training at the moment, happy! That’s all I really need to say about it, apart from ill have to change my second goal of my 500m of elevation in one sitting, with the restrictions but I can look at this positively and say it’s a goal that I’ll have to prolong and keep training for that.
So the next two weeks
We will be hoping to hear back from the trike manufacturers about talking of sponsorship deals, that’s the plan anyway, thing’s never go to plan though!
In the meantime what is within my power is the recording on social inclusion in regards to my experience on judgementalism and acceptance, two separate videos, so don’t forget to subscribe and follow on all the social media platforms so you can stay in the loop!
Training wise 750m of elevation this week over five days as well as 3 sessions of gym workouts, thinking Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at this stage anyway. The week after its Goal one of the mini 8 weeks training, 3x50km’s in a row, I’m surprisingly looking forward to it but that’ll probably change on the day haha!
