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The Confident Mother

Helping ambitious women in technology manage their career with confidence and purpose

20th February 2017

To be successful at work, you need a sense of fun too

When you meet me in a group, I come across as quiet and reserved (unless you see me on stage first which is when I really come alive).

However get me talking, and you’ll soon realise that I love fun and adventure especially if you mention cycling …

I’ll never forget sleeping under the stars in Montserrat when we cycled from Bordeaux to Barcelona in just 10 days. Though when I check the website, clearly time is playing with my memory.

Those incredible serrated rocks

However I do very clearly remember looking up at the stars. Maybe it was a painted roof. Or maybe I was delirious having just cycled up to the sanctuary and our first night in a real bed for 10 days. You can see the serrated mountain from miles away. As you get closer, the climb looks tougher and tougher.

We were near the end of a 10 days cycle tour holiday, covering around 50-70 miles each day and camping overnight. My legs hurt. I was sunburnt. I was SO tired. My back was painful (some days I hurt so much I wanted to hurl the bike into the nearest bush). I didn’t think I could do it. But I had to. Dinner (and bed) was at the top.

Half way up … I was miles behind.

The climb from the village of Monistrol de Montserrat to the Monastery is about 5 miles. It was the 450+ miles we’d already cycled the 8 days before!

However …. what a sense of achievement when you get to the top! Aching muscles forgotten, Montserrat is stunningly beautiful.

This wasn’t the post I’d planned to write today … but as soon as you talk cycling to me, I start reminiscing about the fun adventures I’ve had.

After all what’s the point of life and a fabulous career without fun and adventure too. To be successful at work, you really do need that sense of fun.

Final destination – arrival in Barcelona the next day. That’s me all in orange.

What about you? How do you maintain your sense of fun and adventure?

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