So it’s been quite quiet here for a month or so.
Injury and forgetting my domain name renewal aside, I’ve actually been out of the country on holiday. I contemplated writing here a few times, but decided that it’d be far better to spend my holiday time doing holiday stuff.
But…
I’m back.
And very unfit.
I’ve actually been back for about a week now and so far, I’ve only been on the bike once. I’ll have to admit, I almost fear starting to cycle again. It’s interesting that at times of physical fitness, I actually crave the opportunity to suffer and slog up a big mountain. Yet, at times of unfitnes, when the pain and suffering come oh-so-easily, I just shy away from it.
Oh well.
I reckon I’ll have to get back to it this weekend.
Starting all over again…
Well… that’s what it feels like.
Over the last three weeks, I’ve hardly done any “serious” riding. Sure there was a bit of commuting and the odd RRR, but there were no lung busting climbs or pushing the boundaries of traction between rubber & dust. The first two weeks were just too-darn-busy. That was followed by injury.
BUT…
I managed to get back on the bike this weekend.
Twice in fact!
Annnnnd now I’m hurting.
Honestly, three months ago, following my 1000km November, I would have eaten these two rides for breakfast and backed it up with another 100km. Today, I feel like rolling over and going back to sleep.
Gah!
After last week’s monster effort, I did the exact opposite this weekend. I rode a grand total of 3km… which I won’t log on MCL (unless I find that at the end of the month, that someone is 2.5km ahead of me).
Instead the weekend was spent crawling under the house running cabling, lifting sound equipment and doing a whole range of chores that I’d been neglecting in setting my new weekly total-distance-cycled record.
I wonder if the rest will help to revive the legs a little bit. It certainly didn’t feel like it helped this morning on the ride in.
That actually got me thinking.
I wonder if I’m not actually riding my commuter bike any slower than I used to. I wonder if it’s caused by the fact that I rode my road bike so much over last week that my sensation of speed changed.
I actually get a similar effect in my car. I kind of forget how fast my car actually is, so when I drive some other car (usually a turbo diesel Mitsubishi Triton), I think everything’s running in slow motion. Admittedly the Triton is pretty darn slow because, aside from being a diesel, it’s also towing a large box trailer – but it’s probably not nearly as slow as I think it is.
So I wonder if this recent feeling of slowness I’ve felt since last Wednesday is just a matter of readjusting to riding what is actually a slower bike…
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