has anybody seen my get up and go??
My get up and go never even turned up!! That is how I have felt since the start of the new year, at first I put it down to the wife lack of employment and the problems that was causing, but that has been resolved as she now working. I still have the remnants of a cold lingering around, blocked snotty nose type. When I go out I feel the cold more than I have ever done before but as soon as I wrap up I am sweating. I am not sleeping well, and always find the bed and bedroom to warm despite the windows being open and the radiator being turned off. Work is a right nightmare at the moment with a queue of jobs which were supposed to have been completed yesterday. My diet as gone out the window since Christmas and that really is annoying me but I just can’t seem to control what I am eating, I have no will power when it come to eating at present.
When I go for a ride I have no energy, it is getting to the point where I don’t even go for a ride at the moment (I never went out last Sunday or today). I want to go for a ride, it just my get up and go has got lost. Last Sunday I woke up early (still dark 6:30am-ish) and just laid there in bed before fulling back to sleep, when I woke up again it was 9am. By the time I was up and had breakfast I had no interest in going for a ride. This morning I was in two minds where or when to ride, go out in the morning over the heath and come back and do some work on the bikes (more of that in a minute) of do the work on the bike and go out on the club ride in the afternoon. I decided to do the work on the bikes and by midday the wind had picked up and it had started to rain so no riding for me.
Now with the rain this afternoon, tomorrows ride is going to be muddy (assuming I do go for ride). I had picked a ride which hopefully would only have a little mud but it is only a short ride so now I don’t know if I will do that ride or do another ride or even go for a ride? Why am I trying to avoid the mud anyway, it has never worried me in the past?
I spent this morning swapping the rear wheels over between the Whyte and Cannodale now the Hope hub on the Cannondale wheel has been rebuilt. While I was at it I played with the rear mech hanger bolt now that I have a tool to hold the chain ring like bolt that secures it to the frame. I also gave the jockey wheel a clean and grease while I was at it. Once that was done I started on the Whyte, I refitted the rear wheel (which I had fitted on the Cannondale when its rear wheel failed) and then took the rear shock off the bike ready to go for a service. As well as a shock service, the rear brake calliper needs a service, a new rear brake rotor is required and a new rear mech cable before it is ready to hit the trail again.
I had even put off typing this post as I did not want to write about the fact that I had not done anything constructive in the past few days. Going back to my diet, I have made a decision, I am going to rejoin Slimming World (we both left just before Christmas to save some money), I have set a date for rejoining in an attempt that I can bring my eating under control before I rejoin, it is not working very well at present.
Well I have bored you enough, hopefully my next posting will be more entertaining…
