I want my husband back!
The boys are getting a lot of credit for cycling up hills but has anyone spared a thought for us poor, forgotten cyclists’ wives? It’s been a year since Steve started training to cycle the Etape for Finn’s Trust. In this time I’ve discovered…
5 things you have to endure as a cyclists wife
- Lots of receipts. For very expensive Rapha clothes, weird gels and a bike that’s worth more than our car – despite not coming with any wheels.
- Watching you stretch. Constantly, whilst watching television, whilst cooking and usually in your pants. This is not normal.
- Carbohydrate based meals. My skinny jeans no longer do up.
- Looking after your children. Again. We Mums have been forced to band together and collectively empty your wine cellar in protest.
- Never getting a lie in. Why do you have to go cycling at 5:45am anyway? And why doesn’t your own alarm ever wake you up? I am tired at pushing you out of bed with my feet.
There is an upside to all this, namely having a very fit husband! And more importantly raising money and awareness for Finn’s Trust, a charity very close to my heart.
I wish you well on Monday boys, Finn would be proud of the Daddys!
3 Comments
Geri,
I work with Steve. When I see him, he is very respectably suited and booted. You have now planted an image in my mind of Steve stretching in his pants. This image is not welcome and I now need to go and wash my mind out!
I hope that when Steve returns, the piles of receipts will be for presents for you for putting up with his antics over the last year!
Good luck, chaps.
Ade.
Ade, I can only apologise for the mental trauma caused by the thought of Steve stretching in his pants. Just feel blessed you don’t have to witness it on a daily basis…
I have been friends of Pete and Sarah for a few years now, and have witnessed first the hard work and determination needed to train for this ride. It is no easy task and I would just like to say well done boys, amazing effort !!
jon