Was going to go out with the bike tonight but I woke up this morning with a very stiff, sore neck (probably a combination of falling off my bike the other day and the cat hogging my pillow all night - again ) and it's gradually started to get stiffer and more painful again. I resorted to taking a couple of Ibropofen tablets (normally hate the things) which eased it up a bit this afternoon but it's got worse again.

Going to have a long soak in the bath and get hubby to massage it later on and hope that shifts it.

Tomorrow I'm going out with my cycling neighbour. It'll be sometime in the evening as she's working till 5pm and I've got to go and pick up my new baby snake tomorrow. We're going to go to a grassy area where I can practice.

I've got the bike in the kitchen at the moment and have been practicing clipping in and out there. Feels really weird and at the moment I'm not 100% convinced that Shimano SPDs were the right choice. I can see me going over to the ones I originally wanted - the Speedplay lollipop ones. I'll see how I get on.

One thing I've noticed since I fell off the other day, I'm snatching at the brakes when I'm stopping (panicking). I seem to have lost confidence in stopping, which before that happened I used to be able to do quite smoothly. Hope it's just a phase that passes soon, otherwise I'm going to have a problem especially with the clipless.