Waking at 6am, I had visions of me pulling my sorry backside out of bed and starting the day productively, with a brisk bike ride to get the blood flowing.
However, the pull of the lovely warm bed, with its soft, loving duvet were too hard to resist. And whilst I didn’t get back to sleep, I dozed long enough to look at the clock at 7, then 7.15, 7.30, and finally 7.45 and at each, I thought hey, I could be just getting back about now.
What was common to all my early morning fantasies was one road. One long, straight, flat road.
You know, it’s a road I actually don’t know the name of. But it’s long, and straight, and flat. I might have mentioned that.
Anyway, it has an absolutely magnificent view of the local fells, and on a lovely clear day like today, the sight is honestly quite stunning. If you like that sort of thing, of course. I didn’t stop for a photo today as I was on one, more on that in a second. But here’s a previous post with a fairly crappy shot – hey, I’m no photographist.
Anyway, I was in a bad mood when I finally did get out today. And that was nothing to do with waking early. It was down to work. Honestly, some people are (I think) wind up merchants. Unfortunately I’m a stupid enough fool to fall for it, and maybe I really am the bigger idiot for just wanting to do a good job, deliver some value, and feel like I’ve given a solid output for the 8 hours I spend at my desk.
What this did translate into was a stress busting performance. Honestly, couldn’t really have asked for more today. There were several new PB’s set, and by and large I was on it from the off. Any time I can average over 30kph outdoors for the hour is a good effort from me.
Also a decent calorie burn today. And it did work. When I got home I had calmed down, and felt like I’d had a reset. The rest of the afternoon went a lot better than the morning.
