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Try that again without a bowel.You never know
I got roped into riding Paris-Brest-Paris in 2015 by my son's coach, who in the end didn't join me. Before then I'd ridden no further than 180 miles in one go.
London-Edinburgh-London this year didn't seem that much further.
I still cannot do any reasonable distances
Welcome @Lozi. You should be proud of your progress.
Would stopping after 15 miles for a proper meal at a cafe and a good sit allow you to increase your distance?
I have a friend with a bowel illness, I can't remember which one as im forgetful. He's had several operations but still has his bowel currently, but I know one of things he finds hard is balancing the nutrients and how he feels depending on where he is in the cycle of B12 injections. He also looks pretty healthy so gets looks off people for using the disable loo occasionally.
You are right, he has Colitis and my brother in law has Chrons I think it's that way round.It's probably colitis or crones, I didn't live with the illness I had for long as it went from zero to passing pints of blood in a matter of days so I had to have an emergency op because my bowel was about to perforate which can mean game over. You are right about the disabled loo's not all disabilities are visible and people can be very judging. It's sometimes hard for me to get across to people that my fitness after a lot of very consistent cycling is probably not even as good as a normal healthy person who doesn't exercise!
Great to hear your story, and continue to push the boundaries after illness. To give you more encouragement I had stage 4 cancer 13 chemo cycles and 2 bone marrow transplants in 2014. Yesterday I cycled 84km. Anything is possible.
Firstly sorry to hear that it must have been terrible! Are you ok now?