Kitty_Lincs
New Member
Hi everyone! 
My name is Katherine and I'm from the flatlands of southern Lincolnshire. Through major surgery last November, I've been given a new lease of life. Now I have this, I'm ready (pending final check-up from consultant) to knuckle down and fulfill all the cycling ambitions I could only dream about previously.
First thing will be finding myself a decent, affordable touring bike as my ultimate UK cycling ambition is to cycle from Land's End to John O'Groats. I don't want to do the classic Shropshire route, but to hopefully go via Bath, Central England, Leeds and as much of Yorkshire as is reasonably possible, it being my favourite county in the UK. After that, it is my aim to then cycle all the way back to my home town of Boston, entering Lincolnshire over the Humber Bridge, my favourite landmark. It is that ambition that will be my motivation along what I presume will be a considerable preparation period of many, many months.
Before that, I am going to do a lot of smaller challenges (next town from me, nearest city etc) as a build-up to the LEJOG in parallel with learning as much about cycle safety and maintenance as possible, as well as learning all the cycling-related aspects of the Highway Code and finding a couple of people to accompany me. All this would be a challenge for most people but to add further difficulties to my cycling ambitions, I have three developmental (or 'hidden') disabilities that make my life rather interesting. They are Asperger's Syndrome, Dyspraxia and Mathematical Dyslexia, also called Dyscalculia.
These conditions mean that every aspect of my life, from waking up to going to sleep is affected in some way, although physically, I look entirely normal. If you saw me walking past you on a pavement, you wouldn't know that anything was wrong.
Anyway, if I think of anything else to say, I'll add another post to this thread! Hope that I can find lots of motivation, advice and encouragement here and also that I make lots of friends!
Bye for now!
My name is Katherine and I'm from the flatlands of southern Lincolnshire. Through major surgery last November, I've been given a new lease of life. Now I have this, I'm ready (pending final check-up from consultant) to knuckle down and fulfill all the cycling ambitions I could only dream about previously.
First thing will be finding myself a decent, affordable touring bike as my ultimate UK cycling ambition is to cycle from Land's End to John O'Groats. I don't want to do the classic Shropshire route, but to hopefully go via Bath, Central England, Leeds and as much of Yorkshire as is reasonably possible, it being my favourite county in the UK. After that, it is my aim to then cycle all the way back to my home town of Boston, entering Lincolnshire over the Humber Bridge, my favourite landmark. It is that ambition that will be my motivation along what I presume will be a considerable preparation period of many, many months.
Before that, I am going to do a lot of smaller challenges (next town from me, nearest city etc) as a build-up to the LEJOG in parallel with learning as much about cycle safety and maintenance as possible, as well as learning all the cycling-related aspects of the Highway Code and finding a couple of people to accompany me. All this would be a challenge for most people but to add further difficulties to my cycling ambitions, I have three developmental (or 'hidden') disabilities that make my life rather interesting. They are Asperger's Syndrome, Dyspraxia and Mathematical Dyslexia, also called Dyscalculia.
These conditions mean that every aspect of my life, from waking up to going to sleep is affected in some way, although physically, I look entirely normal. If you saw me walking past you on a pavement, you wouldn't know that anything was wrong.
Anyway, if I think of anything else to say, I'll add another post to this thread! Hope that I can find lots of motivation, advice and encouragement here and also that I make lots of friends!
Bye for now!
