1993 Biking Britain

Recipe for success

Ingredients:

3 heaped tbs stubbornness     

2 tsps psychological games

500g pleasure

Take the stubbornness and turn it into a determination to succeed. Add psychological games to get you up those daunting hills (eg I would refuse to look up at the hill I was trying to conquer until I had cycled 100 times OR I would cycle right on the edge of the road and pretend it was a wall only six inches wide and in concentrating on not falling off the “wall”, I would forget about the hill OR…). Combine with pleasure (the pleasure of an obstacle overcome, of strong hot tea and bacon rolls at a mobile snack bar, of coming around a bend to find gentle green hills dotted with a million white daisies rolling onto a white beach where a turquoise ocean laps). Stir thoroughly and bake at a variety of temperatures for just over two months. YUM!