An off-day.

After two solid, good days I had, as stated in the header, an off-day on my bike today. Luckily, these are more of rarity than normality. Truthfully, my legs were kind of heavy but alright if not even on the better side considering the earlier days. But it was my mind, for some reason, that was off, sloppy, lazy, unwilling and well – just add your own adjectives.

Anyway, here is how it goes on a sloppy off-day:

I wake up earlier than my morning alarm uncertain whether it was the glorious sunshine or the gusty wind banging the door and windows. Then you decide to get up as it isn't worth trying to sleep for some odd 15 minutes more. Now, it is time to take the morning recovery check, and as a byproduct of which I managed to wake up my father as the HR-belt beeped like hell since it had limited memory left and I hadn't emptied it the night before.

Once I get to downstairs to make some proper strong coffee I managed to spill the coffee beans all over. Then serious coffee loading during and after breakfast. After breakfast a small break and check the weather. I think: 'Ok, I'll go out at eleven”. At eleven I decide to go out at noon. At noon I decide to have lunch instead of training. After lunch I have to take a little break before going out. At 1pm I'm sure that I'm ready now, but still I opt for an early afternoon coffee. Then at 1.30pm it is finally time to get set and go before it will get dark. And it is still windy...

I get out of the house with a planned route in mind, but from the very first pedal pushes I start changing it endlessly with ever improving excuses in mind. If something breaks, if some place hurts and if... I had ridden 20mins before the first route change happened, the next one took 10mins, but the process was efficient to say the least and I never got bored with it. After all, I was wandering all around aimlessly trying to make the GPS-trace look cool – and it eventually does look super cool! Mid-ride I ate a chocolate brownie, just for the sake of eating something good, not for the energy, but today for some reason – it didn't taste that good at all, still I ate it. However, I want to point that the power was kind of there, but I wasn't ready to take it out today. These days just happen once in a while. So there I was just riding sloppily trying to make most of it with not real determination.

The plan was to go for 3.5hrs. But as sloppy as I was, I had to punish my weak mind by topping the ride with a bonus of half an hour. I wanted to just find some determination, which I finally found when I was climbing the last hill home and the reason was apparent – refreshing shower. Training done, all good.

In fact, it wasn't so bad today. I managed to do what was in the plan even if I was really sloppy. So, all good and tomorrow some intervals before rest.

PS. I did use some colour pencils, in case someone left it unnoticed.