Cycling update - week unknown
Oh I am weary livejournal, let me tell you. I honestly can't remember a time in my life when I was in good health but yet this tired. If you want to know how weary I am, yesterday Lucy and I had tickets to go and see Allo, Darlin' (my new favourite band) in a church supported by Haiku Saluit (who I also v much like) - AD's smallest london gig for 2 years and likely tro be their smallest for the foreseeable future (tickets sold out within an hour, no presale). Yet and when we met up for dinner, I floated the idea that I was so tired that I didn't know if I could take standing up for 2 hours (and that's if we missed all the support bands) and maybe we should instead go home and go to bed. Luckily Lucy felt similarly.
Still 5 weekends left, on the 6th weekend is the Ride 100. Still no chance to rest yet - Sunday sees a 60 miles race across Kent. Every part of my body is basically crying out for a rest, and I will give it one next weekend, but this is the last chance to go in a race other than the dulwich dynamo (which is a night race and thus totally different from the ride 100). 2 weeks ago my body was hating me due to jetlag, desparately trying to convince me to get up around noon and go to bed around 5am. Since our jaunt last weekend, my body is now convinced that every day is a race day - which means a 5am start. This means I'm getting home from work *absolutely shattered* every day. It doesn't feel like I've got any time to myself, just a series of hours until sleep.
My body has seemed to realise it's got a thing to do too. Maybe the constant stream of 50+ mile jaunts each weekend was the decider, but either way it's hungry ALL THE FREAKING TIME, just convincing me to relplace lost calories - according to this technical bike gismo, the ammount of calories I burnt on the recent Essex 60 was over twice as many as I usually burn over a 48 hour period. Added to that the fact my body has started rejecting fizzy pop, which has been a staple daniel pick-me-up for 20 years or so. body's mesage is clear: less sugar, more water. Robinsons orange squash it is.
This is the main reason I'm so glad I'm doing this at the same time as Lucy. If it was just me going through this, I'd be convinced I'm doing something wrong. As it is, when there's two of you, and when one of you has done both the marathon and a triathlon before, it's a help.
Our plan as the moment is to do the kent 60, take Thursday off work next week to get that week's ride over and then have next weekend off. After that there's another week of cycling, then the dynamo then a week off then the ride 100.
until then, oh so very tired
Still 5 weekends left, on the 6th weekend is the Ride 100. Still no chance to rest yet - Sunday sees a 60 miles race across Kent. Every part of my body is basically crying out for a rest, and I will give it one next weekend, but this is the last chance to go in a race other than the dulwich dynamo (which is a night race and thus totally different from the ride 100). 2 weeks ago my body was hating me due to jetlag, desparately trying to convince me to get up around noon and go to bed around 5am. Since our jaunt last weekend, my body is now convinced that every day is a race day - which means a 5am start. This means I'm getting home from work *absolutely shattered* every day. It doesn't feel like I've got any time to myself, just a series of hours until sleep.
My body has seemed to realise it's got a thing to do too. Maybe the constant stream of 50+ mile jaunts each weekend was the decider, but either way it's hungry ALL THE FREAKING TIME, just convincing me to relplace lost calories - according to this technical bike gismo, the ammount of calories I burnt on the recent Essex 60 was over twice as many as I usually burn over a 48 hour period. Added to that the fact my body has started rejecting fizzy pop, which has been a staple daniel pick-me-up for 20 years or so. body's mesage is clear: less sugar, more water. Robinsons orange squash it is.
This is the main reason I'm so glad I'm doing this at the same time as Lucy. If it was just me going through this, I'd be convinced I'm doing something wrong. As it is, when there's two of you, and when one of you has done both the marathon and a triathlon before, it's a help.
Our plan as the moment is to do the kent 60, take Thursday off work next week to get that week's ride over and then have next weekend off. After that there's another week of cycling, then the dynamo then a week off then the ride 100.
until then, oh so very tired