Seemed like a good idea.....at the time.

My friend Jane (who I go power walking with) rang me tonight (we were due to go out walking ~ this week Tuesday and Friday are punishment days ha ha !!) ~ the conversation went like this....

Jane "Hi Tab ~ you know that we are due to go walking tonight ~ well, I have a suggestion ~ just say if you don't want to......"

Me ~ "OK"

Jane "Why don't we cycle the route instead? ~ It would be a good route to cycle and would be a change to walking ~ we could walk Friday still"

Me ~ (after short silence) ~"OK ~ but I don't have a bike......"

Jane "That's ok ~ you can borrow mine and I'll use Phils" (Phil is her Hubby)

Me (after another silence!) ~ "Oh go on then ~ but I warn you I haven't ridden a bike in AGES"

Jane "Don't worry ~ you never forget how to ride a bike ~ you will get back into it!"

SO ~ off we go! AND ~ boy would that have been a sight to see ~ me wobbling all over the place ~ nearly falling off and having no idea what I am doing!!

(By the way ~ that is so not true about not forgetting how to ride a bike..... I am living proof of that ha ha !).

Anyway ~ we start off well, the saddle is a bit hard and after a while I totally lose feeling in my bum ~ but things are going ok.......until we go off the track and onto the wooded area ~ where it is bumpy (VERY BUMPY) and then the fun really begins ~ I had next to no control over the bike on the concrete path ~ but add a woodland track into the mix and things got really hairy! Then there are the bark chippings ~ which made the walking harder ~ WELL ~ guess what ~ they make the cycling harder too ~ it was a killer!

I almost fell off on numerous occasions ~ then I came round a bend a bit fast and almost went completely off the track and down a bank ~ but we make it round the whole route....all 2 long and excrutiatingly bumpy miles of it!!!!

We get back to Janes house......and I fall....sorry I mean get off the bike.......and OMG!! I can hardly walk ~ I totally have no feeling in my bum and my legs feel like they don't belong to me at all.....

I turn to say bye to Jane ......"That was great" she says "We will have to cycle the route again Friday.........."

"Yeah sure......" I answer feebly............as I wander off slowly ~ with the swagger of someone who has just ridden a horse for 300 miles........

I am just off to soak my poor aching body in the bath and hopefully by Friday I may have some feeling back in my bum again.........sometimes what seems like a really good idea at the time ~ turns out to be soooooo not good! XXX