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So Mrs O went out for cycle training on Friday with London famous London's former most likeable messenger now turned trainer.
As a child she never learnt to ride a bike, a fact I only discovered shortly before we married. About five years ago, I managed to find a way of teaching how to balance and pedal and since then she has ridden some fair distances but will only venture out of cycle paths and so this usually means waiting for our annual holidau or an occasional trip to Richmond Park. She professes to be scared of riding on roads. Nothing I or anyone else can do seems to inspire her into a saddle.
Will took her under his wing. She refused to venture as far as Highbury Corner but did negotiate Canonbury Square. On Saturday, she awoke and asked me to take her for a ride. I forsook the track and pedalled off to Highbury Fields. Other than a brief dismount to cross St Paul's Road, she rode all the way. A couple of laps of the Fields and then off to The Emirates where we lapped the Palace of Evil for a while and then home. She did 13 miles. While most of them were off road, they were all confidence building. Today her personal trainer is coming on his bike and they are off to The Emirates again. To France and the piste cyclable de Gironde at the weekend and, hopefully, by the time she comes back she will be ready for some more training.
Thank you Will and well done.