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Ton, a mate of mine once said:
"The key to a happy life is balancing the fact that every day could be your last, against the risk that it probably isn't".
From what I see (not much!) you have a grand life and attitude to go with it. 😉
i dont feel it is a midlife crisis.
did all my boozing and birding in my younger rugby days.
ride when i want, wherever i want.
just feeling a bit down i suppose, but thanks for all the advice and good words fella's.
me and the mrs have just had a good cal, and the out come is, we are gonna start looking for a good sized campervan over the weekend.
with plans to ride the lejog once i am well again, with the wife and daughter following me as back up.
gonna do it over 2 weeks and make a nice holiday off it.
more time out in the great outdoors with my family might be all i need to buck me up.............. 8)
nah, not bothered about "things"and lifestyle choices. I think. It is very hard to decide what to think is important and valuable. no one ever said life was gonna be easy!
Spot on idea there ton.
Sounds like the beginning of more good times.
more time out in the great outdoors with my family might be all i need to buck me up..............
sounds like a plan to me, also the bike you buy for it might fit me 😉
feel free to make me a offer on my bike of choice big n daft
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Sounding pretty upbeat there ton. 🙂
Blimey, that's some challenge you're setting yourself! Do hope that body of yours gets fixed very soon cos it's bound to have another bike to get used to. 😉
CG...........been for a ultrasound scan on my heart today.
it sounded like a dodgy hippo water pump....... 😉
Lol presumably a wait to see a specialist now?
Life's like a computer. You need to reboot every so often.
There must be stuff you've always wanted to do (but never done) that wouldn't cause your normal life to implode?. Backpacking somewhere culturally different for a few weeks, climbing a big mountain, I don't know, make a list and pick one thing from it each year or 6 months.
I'm doing the Black Cuillin traverse on Skye this year and the three Peaks Challenge. Next year maybe Vietnam or Laos on the cheap out of a rucksack, certainly a short backpacking trip to somewhere different. Passport Du Soleil is on the list to do in the next few years along with one or two other MTB things.
Same as ton. Married, had the kids, ones just left home, had the business to look after. Never really wanted for anything.
Though I'm in my early fifties and still think I have plenty of time.
I'll tell you though. when we were younger it wasn't that easy to travel. Tours to the Alps or more exotic places for anything weren't available unless you were a Rothschild.
I remember wanting to go to Kilimanjaro decades ago. There were no online companies that would sort it for you. You literally had to risk your life over there and sort it out day by day with tribesmen.
You haven't missed the boat, it's just that there wasn't any boat to miss when we were younger.
Edit; BTW my wife hates my cycling with a passion. When our first child was born she was very premature and quite ill. However I continued to race until the pressure of an ill first child and racing meant I ended up unconcious wedged between a door and the toilet pan, firemen had to get in through a window to get to me....that's selfish and fulfilling your dream.