Having qualified as Registered Nurse and Midwife, I work at Preston hospital as a Midwife,
so throughout the years the riding and racing has had to fit around shifts which makes
life interesting, but also means I get time off when 'normal' people are working.
fortunately there is a healthy mid-week cycling scene in the NW.
Fitting it all in and taking the type of touring holidays the other half wanted to
do did mean my racing times suffered through the 90's but sometimes you cannot have it all.
During this time we brought Andrew up to cycle, initally on the back of a tandem
and now he is fully independant and joins me in shorter time trials. He has toured
Iceland, Poland/Slovakia, Germany, France, Ireland, Scotland and regularly joins us in Mallorca.
Other set backs have been various accidents I have suffered and have broken my
Collar bone, Shoulder blade, Thumb, Wrist and Elbows twice........ but each set
back has seen me bounce back.
With the break up of my marriage my cycling has moved on again, and since meeting
Phil I probably apply myself to more serious training sessions on the turbo and the road.
I have certainly improved at various distances and have broken some of old pb's from the 80's.
For the past 2 years Denise has been trying to recruit me to WCS but I had a couple of
specific reasons for not leaving my old club immediately and wished to put the
ladies' 12 hour record on the shelf, something I achieved last year.
So now here I am..... and looking forward to being part of a team of ladies.