Trying another tri

Cluck!

 The hens have established themselves at the back end of our garden. Izzie and Lizzie - one of them is laying an egg a day but the other one is eating all she can get without producing - I'm not sure which one of them is the passenger. Having now added an extension to the run they have more space to run around in and to attack anything that tries to grow within about six inches of the netting of the run. A quick thrust of the neck combined with a vicious peck and bingo - what violent creatures!

Another newcomer to our household is this swish looking, light-as-a-feather racing bike. Amid the global cycle shortage we managed to locate one of the few bikes available in the right size in order that Mrs C can shave valuable seconds off her triathlon time. In fact this was one of the only road bikes in store - the shop had dozens of mountain bikes in stock however - I wonder why? Of course the machine that you can't get now for love nor money is an electric bicycle, particularly the newer styles that don't look as if they're electric!!

And indeed the two wheeled investment paid dividends - in the Chester Deva Divas Triathlon Vicky swam the river, hurtled round the lanes on her new bike and ran along the river bank, all with a big beam on her face oblivious to the fact that her race number was upside down! Remarkably after over an hour and a half of vigorous swimming and cycling, she stepped off her superbike and completed the 5K in a time not far short of her parkrun 5K average. Vicky's enthusiasm in amazingly infectious and for this event she was joined for three of our local ladies for their first triathlons and more of them have promised that they'll join her for the next stage of her incredible journey. You might think that she'd rest on her laurels for a few weeks but no.....two days later she won the monthly Out-Fit Moel Famau fell handicap on a lovely warm summer evening.

Just to round things off nicely I had a go at the above mentioned handicap race and completed the event finishing as first male runner - the husband and wife team achieving this for the second month on the trot! The handicapper will no doubt be making things a lot more difficult for us in August!

High there!