my main excercise for the last two days has been painting (and that left handed!) due to the rib injury It does seem to be getting better with the help of lots of arnica tablets and lots of cuddles with the cats when I was at Gill's yesterday watching the time trial in the Tour.

This years etape du Tour took people up Mont Ventoux (ouch)...something I would quite like to have a go at next year - will see how it fits in with the school terms next year.

Anyway, am probably going to give the open water swim a miss today - although may go down and chat with Stuart anyway and resume training on Monday..