A Great Weekend Mountain Biking

Hampton Court, Surrey.

Wow! Another day, another bike ride.
Firstly, Friday evening. It was the day after my 31st Interferon injection. It went very well. I am amazed at how easily the needle just seems to disappear into my flesh, without so much as a prick so to speak. Everytime i expect it to hurt like hell. I have had a fair few injections over the decades, but always into a vein. It just seems so unnatural to stick a needle anywhere else. I pushed the whole lot in, including the air inside the needle and syringe. I don't want to loose any amount of "Liverade" at all! I have read that some of the Interferon injection packs have some pretty suss design issues, where some of the Interferon comes out when 'screwing' the needle onto the syringe.
I have the 'push on' needles & syringe with the little red plunger. I haven't had any problems so far. Still collecting them! I intend to make some sort of canvas with them when i have all 47. I am still missing the very first one, as i did this one at the hospital. It went in the bin there. I don't suppose it is still there;)
Now to my cycling.
I went out on Friday evening with my friend Lee. It was clear, but had been raining the night before. He had a nice set of lights (like mine) that i helped get him for his birthday. His first time out with them, and next to me, we could see for miles. We were right up in the woods on Pitch Hill, Surrey. This is great mountain biking country. As usual though, we didn't see another soul the whole way round. In the day (especially at the weekend) the place is rolling with us.
I usually feel a bit fluey/chilly on my Friday night ride, but i was feeling greater than ever this time.
Time passed very quickly after dodging fallen trees and getting lost in some quite thick fog on the summit. but all said and done we had a great ride with no casualties. Lee did have to dodge a jumping frog, which he first thought was a jumping rock! Mmm, maybe his lights aren't that good after all;)
Today (Sunday) I went alone to the same place. It was nice and sunny, but muddy for all the rain in the night. My bike needs a good wash me thinks. The place was crawling with fellow mountain bikers, all covered with mud.
I took off in an area i hadn't been before and found a very pretty windmill in Ewhurst, Surrey. What surprised me though was that is was in amongst a whole load of very big trees! I thought they were always exposed to catch the wind. I was hoping to get a nice photo of it, alas the picture i took is not worth posting here:( I had a great ride (3 and a half hrs) and Loved every minute of it. I did see a mountain biker crash though and hit a tree head first. She was fine thank goodness. I have been over the same section loads of times and it always brings my Haemophilia back home to me when i see someone come a cropper. I certainly don't take any unnecessary risks. I have seen some pretty nasty crashes in the past. Too fast and not careful enough!
Anyhow, i don't want to frighten you away from my blog, so i will finish here with today's ride.
I still haven't made my Humus yet. I am going to attempt to make some tomorrow. I have a few recipes to try out, including one from a fellow Hep C Blogger (thanks Chris).
Oh, i joined the Hep C Forum proper last night. And what a wonderful forum it is too. I shall write a post about it soon.

Sleep well & take care:)

Jason