Missed 55,000 last night! 
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Not much to report except it's really eating the miles now, unfortunately MPG is still only around 55mpg average but that's the problem with mostly motorway or town lol, only seems to be any good at ~45 on a B road. Think I bought it on 46,XXXk so nearly 10k done now, also not far off a year of ownership, just under 2 months away. Don't know where the time goes!!
Some of you may remember I attempted Ace back in March which ended badly. Well, I've got some longer trips planned in the next few weeks so thought I'd attempt a longish trip last night as it was Ace again so 4 months-ish since the last try, was no point attempting Ace but tried the reverse route of the one I took last time so up towards Newmarket. Not gonna lie it didn't all go well, I didn't even get half hour away before the waves of panic, gutsache and nausea started, which in turn cause silly mistakes. It must be the anticipation of the distance that done it as I've been doing loads of driving lately, much further than that, without it getting so bad. I did try pushing through it but it just wasn't sensible, so turned back and headed home and surprise, surprise, started feeling better pretty soon. So at that point decided top push my luck a bit again and head down towards Colchester, didn't feel so bad doing that although still getting occasional waves of panic - until I got to the A120 turn off to create a circle without doubling back on myself - its a road I haven't been on before and is rough as f*ck - cue lots of panic and nausea, got in such a state doing that I wished I'd just gone back the way I came!! Eventually I got to the Manningtree turn off (single carriage B road) and instantly felt better - no-one about and good conditions so really gave the Focus some stick (forget how well it handles tbh) - but without any panic or nausea!? Got to manningtree and parked up and had a wander by the river in the sunset, trying to avoid the scary swans lol. Was nice tbh. Headed home feeling much better but while I was on a roll thought I'd push it a bit further in time rather than distance and sit somewhere away from home for a while - first place turned out to be a dogging spot lol, so quickly moved on and headed down to view point at Felixstowe instead, windy as hell but quite interesting to watch the containers get loaded up and see the tiny tug boats steering enormous ships... Listened to the new Years & Years album (surprisingly good if that's your thing!) and headed home after that, narrowly missing a black cat running across a dark road at 70 lol.
So all in about 4 hours, 3 of those on the road. No idea how many miles or fuel I done, don't really care lol. But whats frustrating is it seems I can do many miles/hours on the road, but not in a straight line, only locally or the panic kicks in which brings on gut issues and nausea, which in turn makes the panic worse, and it comes in waves rather than just dying off.
Not really sure how I can overcome that, anyone any ideas? Really considering trying pro help again, though it was completely useless last time!
Also contemplating taking 'vlogs' of these sort of events, it may help others in the same position realise they aren't alone, give those without an issue a better understanding and maybe others with similar issues could offer advice. Just an idea atm though, I don't even have a camcorder lol.
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Not much to report except it's really eating the miles now, unfortunately MPG is still only around 55mpg average but that's the problem with mostly motorway or town lol, only seems to be any good at ~45 on a B road. Think I bought it on 46,XXXk so nearly 10k done now, also not far off a year of ownership, just under 2 months away. Don't know where the time goes!!
Some of you may remember I attempted Ace back in March which ended badly. Well, I've got some longer trips planned in the next few weeks so thought I'd attempt a longish trip last night as it was Ace again so 4 months-ish since the last try, was no point attempting Ace but tried the reverse route of the one I took last time so up towards Newmarket. Not gonna lie it didn't all go well, I didn't even get half hour away before the waves of panic, gutsache and nausea started, which in turn cause silly mistakes. It must be the anticipation of the distance that done it as I've been doing loads of driving lately, much further than that, without it getting so bad. I did try pushing through it but it just wasn't sensible, so turned back and headed home and surprise, surprise, started feeling better pretty soon. So at that point decided top push my luck a bit again and head down towards Colchester, didn't feel so bad doing that although still getting occasional waves of panic - until I got to the A120 turn off to create a circle without doubling back on myself - its a road I haven't been on before and is rough as f*ck - cue lots of panic and nausea, got in such a state doing that I wished I'd just gone back the way I came!! Eventually I got to the Manningtree turn off (single carriage B road) and instantly felt better - no-one about and good conditions so really gave the Focus some stick (forget how well it handles tbh) - but without any panic or nausea!? Got to manningtree and parked up and had a wander by the river in the sunset, trying to avoid the scary swans lol. Was nice tbh. Headed home feeling much better but while I was on a roll thought I'd push it a bit further in time rather than distance and sit somewhere away from home for a while - first place turned out to be a dogging spot lol, so quickly moved on and headed down to view point at Felixstowe instead, windy as hell but quite interesting to watch the containers get loaded up and see the tiny tug boats steering enormous ships... Listened to the new Years & Years album (surprisingly good if that's your thing!) and headed home after that, narrowly missing a black cat running across a dark road at 70 lol.
So all in about 4 hours, 3 of those on the road. No idea how many miles or fuel I done, don't really care lol. But whats frustrating is it seems I can do many miles/hours on the road, but not in a straight line, only locally or the panic kicks in which brings on gut issues and nausea, which in turn makes the panic worse, and it comes in waves rather than just dying off.
Not really sure how I can overcome that, anyone any ideas? Really considering trying pro help again, though it was completely useless last time!
Also contemplating taking 'vlogs' of these sort of events, it may help others in the same position realise they aren't alone, give those without an issue a better understanding and maybe others with similar issues could offer advice. Just an idea atm though, I don't even have a camcorder lol.