Wednesday 16th January 2019
“Normal is in the eye of the beholder” — Whoopi Goldberg

If it carries on like this then I may have to rethink the concept of this being a “daily” blog or I’ll bore you all. Today felt very much like a “normal” day.

The alarm clock went off at 6.40am, I woke up very easily and felt refreshed after about 8 hours sleep. Got to work about 7.45am and logged on. Desk work in the morning, a few hours of back to back meetings in the afternoon. I had an afternoon low about 1pm after lunch, but nothing worse than a normal workday. Otherwise I was fully alert all day, a complete contrast to Monday where I was fighting to stay awake all day until I could nap.

After work, I have no feeling that I need to nap. I notice I am still out of breath from relatively menial tasks, although that seems to have improved slightly too. I am trying my best to listen to my body and work within it’s new limits now I’m getting used to what they are. Taking care to get the right amount of sleep, limiting working hours, hydrating and fuelling properly, and simply resting. I would like to think this is contributing to how well I feel.

My digestive system is back to normal, although my appetite remains really quite high. I need to keep an eye on this or I could end up putting a stone or two on. I’d rather not spend my first 3 months back on the bike simply shifting weight, I’d rather be getting my fitness back.

There’s a 100 mile cycling sportive in the Forest of Bowland in September, it’s absolutely beautiful up there. I had the pleasure of twice cycling up Lythe Fell Road to the Cross of Greet on the RBS 500 mile London to Edinburgh Cycle Challenge in 2015 and 2016. I think it’s time to sign up for that, get an early goal in the calendar to work towards. Motivation. Already dreaming of getting back out there…

That’s your lot for today. Work from home tomorrow, pretty full schedule so the day should fly by. Then in for the first bleomycin top-up on Friday.