What Polly Did Next

When you discover a gravel trail you didn’t know was on your doorstep. 🤩🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🚴🏿🚴🏿

Robo-Polly 😆

After 3 tumbles in as many days I wasn’t taking any chances and got elbow/knee guards. I’m literally terrified right now.

So I also wore a wristband:

“Brake = Unclip”

A visual cue should help to lock this into my brain until it becomes automatic.

Only did 8km but no falls today.

14 days to go to master this….

❤️ If you haven’t already and would like to donate, you can do so via the link in my bio. Super grateful 🙏🏻

Rehab.

Less than 3 weeks to go until London to Brighton and I’m ramping up my physio and strength training.

Meanwhile….mastering cleats currently stands at

Cleats - 3
Polly - 1

I landed so hard on Wednesday my Apple Watch sent an SOS alert. Luckily I was fine…..swipe to see my solution 🤣🤣🤣

Fear.

After stacking it twice on my first rodeo in cleats I’d started to fear riding and knew I had to get a grip of it.

So as I rolled out today feeling afraid of falling I had to keep telling myself to just ignore the fear and just do it.

45mins later…much happier and no falls.

Now hill climbs in cleats…whole different level of terror and only 3 weeks to get confident 😱

❤️ Why am I doing this?
Because 1 in 4 of us will be impacted by some form of heart disease.

My dad was one of them.

I’m almost at my fundraising target for the so if you can, please sponsor me. Every penny will support vital research into spotting signs early and into more treatments that will save lives.

Xx

This Week..

Having to take a week out of training to let my calf recover was a worry.

A trip to was a huge relief though, with physio and rehab exercises I can still ride and, even better, it should strengthen.

But, to aid this and prevent further/ other potential injury, I need to be clipped into the pedals with cleats.

Today was my first go wearing them outside of the spin studio… I was doing really well, until I wasn’t!!

I’m going to have to really work on mastering this so I feel confident (and safe) by 21/6.

Sponsoring me will give me a boost 🤩 Even £5 really matters to the British Heart Foundation.

👉🏻 You’ll find a link in my bio.