And back to it!

I'm back to it. I feel its return - the urge to get out. The knee has stopped whining and I can now walk downstairs, run (slowly and gently) and move about pretty much as before it twanged. No, I didn't go to the doctors and yes, I realise this was stupid and might lead to long term damage but having kinda narrowed 'it' down to a cause myself, I don't want to go to the doc admitting fault.

So yesterday morning I went out for my first tentative run. Just 20 minutes at a really slow pace on the trail. No hills just softish compacted trail. Lots of stretching afterwards and this morning knee seemed fine so I met up with a new friend JB for our first ride out together. 25 miles as that's the distance I'm training for and she competed at. I have to say I'm still grinning. It was one of those rare days when everything is right. The sun is shining (mostly), the ever present wind has dropped to gusts below 30mph (mostly), when your shoulder blades don't ache, when your knees don't hurt on even the hardest of hills, when your legs find a natural rhythm and when you have teeth covered in flies because you've just been grinning so much. Despite the fact we were very nearly dislodged by gales as we neared the top of the second  and third hills, it was one of the best rides of my admittedly short cycling career.  Really looking forward to our next meet up in a couple days!