I Believe In Myself

For those of you who don't know Shrewsbury,

this is an artist's impression of Wyle Cop:

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And in this photograph,

notice how people are struggling to walk up the hill.

If it was enlarged we might

see that they are wearing crampons:

And so, as I approached Wyle Cop on my bike this evening I muttered something along the lines of:

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

My legs didn't pay attention, kept pushing the pedals round,

whilst inside my head all I could hear was this: 

Ican'tdothis

Ihaven'tcycledupheresincehavingchildren

I'mpastit

mybodyisawreck

andthere'snowayIamgoingtomakeit

andwhatismorethisispotentiallyhumiliating

ImeanImightgososlowthatIjustfalloversideways

andwho'dbetheretopickmeup?

By which stage I'd reached the top.