still the craziest
May. 19th, 2004 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
topazOK. New rule: stupid-long bike commutes maybe once a week. Not twice a week. Definitely not twice a week. Once a week.
I think I did pretty well, in fact. I could tell very early on this morning that I was still a little tired from Monday's ride. Still, the trip in to the city went smoothly, I got to work in a neat 90 minutes, showered and went on with my day.
When I headed home at 5:30, it was clear right away that all the riding was taking its toll on me. I figured out that I needed to pace myself carefully if I wanted to make it home at all. This is normally very difficult for me. When I ride, I ride as fast as I can; I settle into the fastest pace that I can maintain comfortably and stick to that. I can rarely manage to slow myself down to conserve energy -- my body just keeps wanting to speed up.
Tonight, though, my body knew better, and kept me to a sensible cadence. I got home about 20 minutes later than I'd planned and quite worn out, but not completely and totally depleted, as I often end up after a long ride.
86.8 miles since Monday. That may be a personal record.
Things to take away from today:
Yeah.
I think I did pretty well, in fact. I could tell very early on this morning that I was still a little tired from Monday's ride. Still, the trip in to the city went smoothly, I got to work in a neat 90 minutes, showered and went on with my day.
When I headed home at 5:30, it was clear right away that all the riding was taking its toll on me. I figured out that I needed to pace myself carefully if I wanted to make it home at all. This is normally very difficult for me. When I ride, I ride as fast as I can; I settle into the fastest pace that I can maintain comfortably and stick to that. I can rarely manage to slow myself down to conserve energy -- my body just keeps wanting to speed up.
Tonight, though, my body knew better, and kept me to a sensible cadence. I got home about 20 minutes later than I'd planned and quite worn out, but not completely and totally depleted, as I often end up after a long ride.
86.8 miles since Monday. That may be a personal record.
Things to take away from today:
- It was good that I pushed myself to do something I'd never done before and wasn't sure I could do.
- It was even better that I paid attention to my body and figured out how to pace myself so that I could make it all the way home and still have energy for the kids.
- When you see someone struggling with a flat tire by the side of the road, without the proper tools and know-how, stopping to help him fix it is a wonderful thing to do... and yet, you might want to consider being the good Samaritan someplace other than the side of a Carlisle road, at dusk, in May.
- A very hot shower has a theraputic effect on a thousand mosquito bites.
Yeah.
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Date: 2004-05-19 09:27 pm (UTC)---
I still struggle with pacing myself, but I think I have it downpat for biking by now. Set me off doing something else, though (running, skating, even indoor biking) and I go nuts and drive myself into the ground. Well, whatever; in the end, I figure out how to listen to my body, and learn to skirt the edge of depleting my reserves without actually doing it. Anyway, it sounds like you have the same problems I do. Good luck to you in figuring out how to stay sane and still keep doing crazy shit. Be sure to give yourself time and slack to recover.
And be sure to revisit that "once a week" rule by the end of the summer. ;)