Day 23 – More bike erg and an accidental walk resulting in extreme hunger!

I knew I was going to spend most of the morning driving my sons around. To make sure I had time for exercise I went to the gym for 8.30 to get half an hour on the bike erg in. Even if I’m limited in what I can do at the gym with the broken toes it always clears my head.

I was right about the driving too, by the time I’d picked the younger one up from Blyth and delivered him to Alnwick then driven the older one to work and myself and daughter home I’d easily covered 80 miles. Add in a diversion to Craster and I’m sure it was closer to 100. Not bad with two broken toes. Still not as far a my husband who is driving younger son to Peterborough to stay with his Auntie for a week. That’s a rather long way there and back in one day!

About the diversion to Craster, my daughter decided she hadn’t been to Dunstanburgh castle for a while. I assumed wrongly this meant she’d been, well ever. Wrong. Now at this point I’d been to the gym and driven around 80 miles, I wanted lunch. “Let’s have lunch at a pub” I say, “no” says Charlotte “we’ll go to a cafe at the castle”. Which turned out to be a mile and half from the car park. Normally, not a problem, with broken toes I was slow. Really slow. Anyway we finally get there. No cafe, just a shop, filled with chocolate and sweets. Wonderful. My lunch consisted of a packet of crisps and a bottle of water, until I arrived home much later. Thankfully I didn’t eat my daughter or the dog. It did after a few easy days remind me how tricky being sugar free can actually be. It’s not all banana ice cream and cinamon! Gorgeous views though.