After Tower 2 Tower we went down to Poole for a couple of weeks and a I did a solid block of riding in the rolling Dorset countryside with my brother in law and and some gentle rides, mostly involving a food stop, with my wife. A few weeks later my brother in law came up to our house and I spent a week showing him the roads of North Lancashire and South Cumbria and our fantastic rain.
After this I think I was riding stronger than ever and even starting to enjoy climbing.
Myself and my wife had booked a week with friends in Benidorm and the first few days were really great but then on a days cycling my wife had a crash on the descent of the Coll de Rates resulting in her spending 5 days in hospital. Looking back she was very, very lucky to escape with bad road rash on her elbows, hands and knees but the worst injury was the multiple fractures of the wrist that required an operation to pin and plate it back together. As you can see Julie has a fine holiday souvenir.
She's healed up really well but still undergoing physio to get full movement back and the gravel rash on her knee is still healing.
My cycling kind of petered out to a gentle pedal after Benidorm but I have big plans in place for 2013. I'll post a full run down in the New Year but basically I'll be doing an endurance ride in France and will be raising money for the North West Air Ambulance - if you're really keen to know the plan before I do a blog on the plan you can find out by clicking the Just Giving link on the right of this site.
Until my next blog I wish all readers all the very best for a happy an prosperous New Year.
