Filed under: Bike Rides
Bike: Cotic Roadrat
Distance: 20 miles
I didn’t think I would even get another bike ride in this year I have been feeling so crap with this flu and chest infection but after 3 weeks of doing nothing I was at breaking point yesterday and needed a ride.
I layered up well as it was still at freezing point outside grabbed the Roadrat and decided to try for an hour at a slow pace to see how I felt, my how things have changed in a short month, fitness feels like it has completely gone! I managed about an hour and 15 minutes, covered 20 miles at a ridiculous pace and then spent the rest of the day coughing my lungs up – great!!
Today though I don’t feel too bad, so I guess the infection has gone and I am left with just a crappy cold, I so much just want to ride every day now but the plan is to ease it back again, so a day off again today, short road ride Monday and then hopefully Davagh for a decent mountain bike ride on Tuesday, I know the legs and lungs will be crap but the soul will be smiling!!
Filed under: Talk the talk
Best laid plans and all that, looks like any riding I get up to the next two weeks will be purely mental and dream related. Got hit with a nasty flu virus on Saturday following nicely with a chest infection, so that’ll more than put and end to any form of biking over the Christmas break, c’est la vie, I could be annoyed, angry and mad but at the end of the day what is the point.
Ever since the trip to Ae back in October things haven’t quite gone to plan at all, so I will aim to take stock, make plans, set goals, get fat and play with the kids toys before the torturous journey back to fitness starts again!
Filed under: Talk the talk
I relented and finally paid up a sub to this great magazine, I’ve been reading the online version since Issue 1, it’s just got better and better with every issue.
I was stoked to come home and find a nice parcel from Pittsburgh with the 2 back issues I had ordered – happy days, happy reading.
Filed under: Bike Rides
Saturday morning brought with it a catalogue of disasters that could have meant no ride of any description, which is not something I was looking forward to in the slightest, considering it has been too long since I had a proper mountain bike ride.
My car packed in on Friday so I was without a means to travel to any trails that are worth the ride, a severe frost coupled with fog meant a road ride would have been like dancing with the devil himself.
I prowled about the house for a couple of hours and then had enough, layered up and jumped on the Meta and headed out into the -2 fun anyway. Had a good hour just spinning round the local small forest and lake trails, it was good fun playing on the ice, well good for learning some new balance skills anyway but at least it was a ride.
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