• Blog Posts - Ways of Escape

    Back to Life!

    So, haven’t been here for awhile! A few months. Was feeling a little jaded about blogging, did not really feel like writing about cycling or anything for that matter. The last post I wrote summed up ten years with MS. Was there to say? No-one much read the blog anyway. I was even thinking about closing it as all l seemed to be doing was deleting spam comments. Why keep it going? Then I read a book. It changed my mind. Effectively blew it. ‘Metamorphosis’ I don’t know many books documenting personal experience of MS although there are quite a few blogs. A lot of the latter are ‘inspirational’, or…

  • Blog Posts - Multiple Sclerosis,  Cycling!

    Motivation for the Alps: Anger and Awareness

    This blog centres on MS and cycling and it is a weird combination, I keep saying that. Too much has been about MS recently, though. I want to say something about cycling and why I am going to go mad in the Alps next month. I mean, a guy with MS cycling up mountains? How stupid is that? That has been said to me. The anger that follows helps motivate me, turning a negative to a positive. Increased awareness of others with MS also helps. No Escape The problem is that MS is going to have an impact. It feels like I have to mention it. It is there, every…