Here are our daily routes...for my own reference!
Day 1 to Whitehaven
Day 2 to silloth
Day 3 to carlisle
Day 4 to haltwhistle
Day 5 to corbridge
Day 6 to south shields
Brendan
Thursday, 31 May 2012
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Unremarkable intercranial content
It should have been our last training ride today, but Liz had other ideas.
Riding back from school with Euan, Liz came off worst in a contest with a bee. A rather dramatic fall left her concussed. Euan (the first hero of the story) managed to get his mum back to the house and look after her. Neve (second hero) looked after her while husband (no chance of being a hero) made his way back to the house. Liz then decided to ask "Where am I", "What happened", "Where are you" in a continuous loop.
999 was called. Kids (a tad upset but still playing their hero roles perfectly made their way to Alan and Janets ... thank you!).
The paramedic arrived. You couldn't make it up .... they asked her to turn her head to the left. The bang hadn't sorted that out so she still didn't know. I advised them that she liked morphine but that wasn't funny. Thankfully oxygen restored her after a while. She got 4 out of 7 of the questions right that they asked which I knew to be a good score.
Ambulance arrived ...
We went to the hospital ... A&E (£2 for the pay-and-display!). Sent to Majors (no minors for us)...Liz was sent for a head scan. Even the doctor wasn't surprised when they came back and advised she had "unremarkable intercranial content". All ok - sent back home.
Other than looking a bit Jimmy Hill, Liz remains on track to start the ride on Sunday!
Brendan
Riding back from school with Euan, Liz came off worst in a contest with a bee. A rather dramatic fall left her concussed. Euan (the first hero of the story) managed to get his mum back to the house and look after her. Neve (second hero) looked after her while husband (no chance of being a hero) made his way back to the house. Liz then decided to ask "Where am I", "What happened", "Where are you" in a continuous loop.
999 was called. Kids (a tad upset but still playing their hero roles perfectly made their way to Alan and Janets ... thank you!).
The paramedic arrived. You couldn't make it up .... they asked her to turn her head to the left. The bang hadn't sorted that out so she still didn't know. I advised them that she liked morphine but that wasn't funny. Thankfully oxygen restored her after a while. She got 4 out of 7 of the questions right that they asked which I knew to be a good score.
Ambulance arrived ...
Other than looking a bit Jimmy Hill, Liz remains on track to start the ride on Sunday!
Brendan
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Tour de Darley with Phil and Dot
Our last big training ride was last Saturday - we were joined by Phil and Dot (uncle, aunt, godparents, good friends) for this ride. We had a wonderful ride, covered 25 miles. To the amazement of us all, Neve then competed in a swimming gala!
Anyway - picture of us roughly half way round... the chap who took the photo was a better cyclist than he was a photographer. We did still have our legs left!
Anyway - picture of us roughly half way round... the chap who took the photo was a better cyclist than he was a photographer. We did still have our legs left!
Route for day 1 (Sunday)
We are staying at a b&b in the grounds of Muncaster castle...so our route has us cycle from there to the official start of the trail at the bath house remains in Ravenglass...and then we're off to Whitehaven Premier Inn :-) Route map here
Brendan
Brendan
Sunday, 27 May 2012
One week to go - blog created
Neve and Euan will be blogging during the day while we are away. Please do subscribe/comment as they are going along as I am sure it will encourage them. I will post the route up before we go to help everyone see our route - other than that ... it will be over to Neve and Euan.
Brendan
Brendan
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