Sheep.. The are all just sheep

I decided today, that most of the cyclists in chch are just like sheep. They just follow each other. Don’t they ever want to break off on there own and try a different direction?  (take your mind back to those dog trials that they used to have on TV when I was about 10) I felt like that sheep that didn’t follow the pack and was very troublesome to the dog rounding them up.

Yes,  I have now offended ALL chch cyclists. I have done the long bays/short bays so may times I am sure that there should be a grove in the road from my tires alone. But I have to say I find them by themselves boring and if I may say a bit easy (unless you doing multiple, that isn’t easy). There are other places to go that will challenge you a bit more….

Where is all this coming from? I decided to do reverse long bays this morning. And the number of cyclists I came across completly overwelmed me. I actually wondered if there was a race I didn’t know about, and “I’m sure harbour ride is not for another month”. As I was going along I just kept on wondering why cyclists always seem to stick to the same routes. We don’t mix it up very much… well I do try, but it is very easy to just say, I’ll just go do Short Bays etc etc.

Well I think its time to change things up! Don’t do a route that you have done before, go elsewhere do something different!

Ok.. bizarre thoughts rant over and I’ll try not to offend anyone again.

Lets get back to the training….. Ummm not a good week.

Monday night I woke up in the middle of night and the world was spinning. Ugggh crap a inner ear infection. It not the first I have had, I do, in fact , get them fairly often. Though it has been a while. It hasn’t prevented me from training. Well except for swimming, I thought it best to hold of the swimming till it clears up a bit more. But it does make me feel really tired and I have had a couple of bad sessions this week.

On Thursday I had a 1hr flat run. I got to 30min and just gave up and walked home. Nothing was really going well, and there was nothing benficial happening in that session, so really no point to continue. I also completly skipped the cycle session I was supposed to have that day.

This weekend was supposed to be a biggy. Saturday was a 1hr bike followed by a 3hr run. I had asked Jo how hard I should do the bike and she wanted it reaonably hard, my legs needed to be tired by the time I had finished. So it was a big gear push out to tai tap and back. The legs felt like lead, but I still managed to average 30K so was pretty happy with myslef. Once I changed into the run I headed up the hill (I finally found a reason to go up the steps at the end of Valley Rd, shite they are harder than I expected), I was Okish heading up the hill but once I reached the kiwi and was following the crater rim I felt empty. I was swalling the gels down more often than I should off, I just felt empty, nothing to grab the energy from. I decided that the hills wasn’t working, maybe the flat would be better, so I headed down Kennedys bush. But once I got to the road I just had nothing and very soon was calling for rescue because that 30 odd min it would take me to get home just seemed like at huge mountain to climb.

Today was a bit better, but I was still feeling the lack of energy. I stopped at tai tap and bought a coke, and had swallowed the whole lot by the time I got to halswell. But I didn’t really feek any buzz or increase in energy that I would normally get from that.

Easy week coming up. Maybe that will give me a chance to reocover a bit better and be ready for more in the following weeks.

(take your mind back to those dog trials that they used to have on TV when I was about 10)