The two-week fix
So over the past two weeks, I’ve been kick-starting my campaign, with delving into social inclusion and my experiences on it. Well to be precise just the opener/intro into it.
I’m going to be doing over a few weeks, so I can really have a think about what I’m saying instead of it being a complete mess and making a fool of my self, like I normally do!
Again the pitch has been an ongoing problem for me (way out of my depths) but now one of my friends has come to the aid and I will be shooting sometime this week, ideally, Monday so I can handball it straight over to the film editor and have it ready for national stroke week next week!
So the first of two weeks I was doing hills, luckily pretty good weather thankfully! I was doing one hour per day five days in a row, the aim was 500m of elevation in total.
The second week of two I think I was a bit ambitious with my target being 42km’s over three consecutive days of indoor training… I didn’t achieve it, mainly because my legs were so sore after Tuesday. However I redefined it as 126km’s over the week, I fell short again, I blew a flat with 9.2km’s to go to my goal…. Then on Sunday when I had fixed the tyre it went flat again, I will tell you it’s very frustrating when you are that close! Alas ill have to make up for that 9.2 and the Saturday class tomorrow as well as doing one hour of hills.
Prospecting for the two weeks ahead, firstly I will be doing the filming cause that is a major priority. Once that is out of the way the focus will be social inclusion and talking about mentality and what resilience/mental toughness and what it means to me from the early stage of my stroke as opposed to the more present time.
On the human-powered vehicle, one of two weeks will be hills, one hour because of the restrictions but ill be aiming for a higher elevation, 750m, ill need to find a steeper hill me thinks!
The second week will be dependant on the weather but I think ill aim to get outside for an hour for at least a few of the days. The target total will be 150km’s over six days that’ll include paramount classes, just to incorporate a bit of variety into my laidback cycling life!
Heaps more to come!
The 8 weeks mini training
The week after the countdown
It was a good week for me on and off the bike, although my legs are sore as! I did all indoor training three days in a row each day for 35kms, the last day was a struggle big time. So i flipped the bike roller around to the easy side, still worked hard but the load was a little bit less stressful on the quads. I also started the 5-week challenge with paramount HFC to keep me accountable at a time like this, we all need a bit of motivation at this time.
During the week I got a phone call from my film mate we had a bit of a chat to work out the pitch and left it at that. But I felt a bit helpless with doing the actual planning. The number of youtube clips I’ve watched and still got no idea what to write and film. But hopefully, the google doc that i created that we can all collaborate on will point me in the right direction. Saying that the time is ticking so I am a little bit stressed…. Don’t worry everything pans out, stay positive, is the attitude I need to take!
Yesterday I did a bit of filming in regards to my 8-week challenge that I’ve set for my self before I go back to university for my last two units of my degree, this has been a long long journey so it’ll be good to get it over and done with!
So looking ahead, on the bike I’m going to be concentrating on the hills/elevation this week…. The weather is not looking pretty either so it’s going to be FUN! Nah not at all, it’s going to be grueling… two hours then one and a half hours, back to back days, respectively. Then two classes fitted into there as also somewhere, I think ill do a Moga session for sure, work on my mobility, it is needed! And then on Friday ill need to do a 3-hour session again in the hills. The way I structure my program I go week by week, it works best for me.
Filming wise and things I need to do will be,
Social inclusion series introduction, getting the ball rolling on that. It will take a few hours because it’s me and filming, we don’t go well together! Look out for it though, stay tuned on that!
And then by the end of the week, I hope to have nutted out the pitch and be ready to film the following week, that’s my goal!
Lastly, my feelings towards me writing, I feel I’m getting better and better…. Just you wait i’ll be an author in no time! HAHAHA
Finalising the route
It all begins with an idea.
It’s taken quite a few goes to get the right route. The main reason is navigating through the city’s, ideally, I wouldn’t like to be riding through Sydney or Brisbane but unfortunately, I can’t see it being avoided. Because I want to hit home-runs and really drive the points I want to get across like ‘Stroke matters’ and the research for that, to do this I need as much publicity as possible, Where’s the main publicity, big city life! It can’t be helped… I’ve got one option of going to just outside of Sydney, ‘park my trike’, then go in and do all the media ect but that’s an IF. I think that’ll be a cross that bridge when we get to it type of thing. At least we will test drive the ride through Melbourne when we arrive from Ballarat and have to keep traveling down to Wilson’s Prom, there is no way of avoiding that one.
Hopefully I’ll be with the wind!
The starting place is Steep Point which will be a fun ride out of that beautiful area, apart from the sand, gravel, corrugation ride, I reckon all those pluses in that equation will equal punctures, no doubt!
What I’m planning and hoping for us to be up at Sydney just before Christmas but things will have changes, I have no doubt about that. There’s only so much you can control, I’m just going to roll with it.