O is for overtaking

I am normally the one doing the overtaking - on my bike, on foot and in the swimming pool, I overtake almost everyone. I have to admit to looking derogatively at the slow coaches on bikes... how can you cycle so slowly without going backwards?! I mean, come on! Well, that's karma for you, I'm now the slow coach, getting overtaken by most people, I am quietly rejoicing that there are still (at the moment) slower people on bikes and I do have to overtake the odd person now and again.

The oldies on their electric bikes are buggers, they zoom past at high speed. I'm not convinced they are in complete control of their vehicle, so it's best to stay out of their way. Maybe I will be joining their ranks soon enough, if I can borrow an electric bike it might be a good option for me to keep cycling a further distance, I'm not giving up cycling. It's my independence, and at the moment, pretty much all the exercise I am getting. I hate being so unfit, my muscle tone has disappeared and I have no strength anymore. I feel like my body is betraying me and letting me down. It's so weird being a slave to this disease inside me, if I am ever ill it is quite often self-induced and so has a time-limit.. I know that within 12 hours I should be feeling better. Even with a cold or something else it has a life cycle and it starts to get better and you can feel it. With this, it is not going to get better on its own; certainly without treatment it is only getting worse and I'm in unprecedented territory with symptoms... I've never felt pain like this before.