Cycling through a Pandemic

The Portugal Pie Eaters had a lot of big plans for 2020. You won’t be surprised to hear when I say — all of them were all cancelled. Looking to the future, well, for the time being, at least, it’s hard to be optimistic about 2021. But make no mistake, we’ll be back, riding further and harder (but probably not faster — well, we’re not getting any younger) than ever. To paraphrase the late, great Dame Vera Lynn, “Don’t know where, don’t know when”, but we will be back.

So it’s been a while since I last sat down and blogged about our cycle adventures. What can I say? Perhaps I’m lazy? Actually, that’s not fair. Like many other people at the moment in time, I am struggling with my levels of motivation. With that in mind, there is nothing like the looming January 31st deadline to do my tax return to motivate me to procrastinate that little bit more. I guess I’ll never learn.

I’m sure that I’m not alone in discovering that I’ve suddenly got a ton of spare time on my hands but not being able to do anything with it. So I figured, perhaps if I wrote about it, it would help me work through the fug and get creative again. It’s good to talk — right?

As we locked down last year, I set myself the goal of getting creative and publishing more cycling content to my blogs, the Facebook page, and my horribly ill-tendered podcast. I also hoped to write another book…