“There was a fearful mess in the room, and piles of unwashed crocks in the kitchen” the hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
I’m losing track of the session numbers. Have to default to using dates.
Again, no cycling this weekend, but I knew it wasn’t going to happen this weekend, because I was going to be away.
However, having done hardly any cycling in the last 3 weeks, the enormity of my undertaking is hitting me with more of a thud as time goes on. Yes, it’s still 10 months before my holiday – let’s do a re-cap here about why I’m doing all this cycling training and why I’m keeping a diary of it (and sharing it with the world).
I’m a sporadic cycler in my mid-somethings (not admitting age here), who decided that it would be a fun idea to go on a cycling holiday to Cambodia. Whereby I’ll be required to cycle around 380 kilometres over 8 days!
That’s the reason. That’s why the enormity of the task is hitting me, looming over my head like a thunderstorm cloud. Yes, it’s still 10 months to go, or thereabouts at 321 days, but time flies, and I can barely manage 40kms session once a week. Therefore either I stop being a lazy so-and-so, stop finding excuses not to train and get my bum out there at every opportunity; or I seriously have to consider cancelling the holiday! I don’t want to cancel the holiday. I want to go and see Cambodia and see it from a different angle!
So – what’s my choice here. No choice really. Just work, work and work at that lax disciple of mine.
Truth is – my life is not cluttered by family obligations, late nights at work, school runs, or anything else that I MUST do. My life is cluttered with things I want to do – plenty of hobbies that keep my evenings and weekends very, very occupied. But even then, it’s all just a matter of re-shuffling a few things, altering some scheduled and there really is no reason why I couldn’t fit 2 weekday and 1 weekend sessions into my life. No reason at all.
As it is, I haven’t stuck to my goal of doing 14k steps a day, on non-cycling days. I haven’t stuck with taking stairs at the office, and I haven’t cycled as much as I could have. Because in reality, there were some evenings over the last 3 weeks when I could have gotten my bum on a bike and trained at least a little bit. I just couldn’t be bothered. Now I’m hoping that when I join the gym from the end of March, that will make a difference, because I will no longer have weather as an excuse. Well let’s see.
In typical fashion, I tend to be more mouth and less action.
I’ve roped in my friends to help me, however. I share my progress with colleagues at work, who do ask about my endeavours – moral support definitely helps. I’ve asked my friends to goad me with texts over the weekend to ensure I go out and do the training. Not sure what else I can do, to make myself do this.
- Days left: 382
- Weight 90.1 kgs
- Distance travelled: 0 kms
- Stupidity Level: Decreasing
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