The 8 week update aka The Marathon. I did put on a little of what I had lost while I was dealing with my affliction, but this is a marathon, not a sprint, and little, in the course 50kg, is nothing. This one simple gesture of getting back on the bike is massive for someone who became distracted with even the slightest inkling of motivation lacking. The key message out of this? The 6 week update.

The place online where aviation meets poetry. I have slipped the surly bonds of earth. And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;. Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things. You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung. High in the sunlit silence. My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,.