Sunday, Sunny, Sunday!

View from Leith Hill, Yesterday

No more dreams this morning I'm afraid! Phew I hear you all cry;)

I did sleep well, as always. Another Sunday afternoon and another 3 hours of cycling. I did all three of the hills too. Holmbury, Pitch & Leith. I did cheat a little between Pitch & Leith. I thought I was finished as I met back with the car in Peaslake. But after some food, I packed the bike away and drove it to Coldharbour and did another hour on Leith Hill. My bike lights were in the boot and there was no excuse to go home. My arm hurt, but I new I was pretty close to the car.
My ankles felt pretty wonderful too. Comes and goes and is very unpredictable. Like on Friday just gone. I went for a hike around Box Hill and my ankle was feeling so weak and pathetic! I was having doubts as to wether I would be able to carry out this Ben Nevis hike next year! It's a long way to go and just sit at the foot of it and rub my ankle! I may have to have a back up plan. A weeks mountain biking up there is definitely going ahead. I will take my boots etc and just see what my feet are like.
I want to kayak to the Isle of White too. Lee and I want to go from Hurst Castle and paddle to The Needles. We have been there a few times kayaking, but not across to the White. It's not very far, but looks pretty dangerous! Either that or a paddle from Eastbourne to Seaford, under Beachy Head and The Seven Sisters. There are a whole load of lakes and coastal stuff we want to do in North Wales too. I am going to be pretty busy next year!
The weather was perfect too. Unlike last Sunday, when having reached back home, resembled something more akin to a giant turd! Gotta do it though! There was, as you can see, a wonderful sunset. I sat there watching it for a good half hour:) Gotta be done:)
Again I was all on my tod. Lee was sick with a cold or something. Actually, if he was well, we both would have done the kayaking at Lulworth. The weather there was perfect according to Metcheck. I don't go sea kayaking alone, as this seems a little daft to me. The sea needs to be respected at all times!
Being alone is fine as long as you don't mind isolation in those kinds of areas. Isolation & pain or isolation & worry etc don't go together! But isolation & cycling (or kayaking & hiking) do go together. Having said that, I think I would rather be with my buddy.
I quite often stop and chat with other mountain bikers and sometimes hikers out in the hills. But kayaking is more anti-social. You can paddle up the Thames for an hour or two and the most you get from another kayaker is a little nod.
Yesterday, right in the middle of Pitch Hill, surrounded by thick forests. I came to a little cross junction in the trail and I see a fellow biker standing over his bike having a drink. Instantly I recognize him from about three weeks ago.................I notice we are in exactly the same spot as before! We both laugh in slight amazment at the coincedence. What are the odds of that? I don't often cross paths with mountain bikers I have bumped into before. You are more likely to put your foot in the same little pile of dog poo you trod in 3 weeks back;)
So.....to today. Today is a lazy day going to Kingston town center to look around the shops. Put a prescription in for my pain killers. Get a pumpkin to cut up tomorrow at my little Sisters house. Her daughter Millie & Daisy & I do the faces thing every Halloween. I need to find some decent saw & tools for the job too.
I shall tell you all about it later:)

P.s. Switched to Beta at the weekend.

Jason