With thought towards Sunday’s 4DP session, this afternoon’s ride was another fairly laid back affair. I went harder than yesterday – can’t handle the granny ring for too long before it becomes tedious. Today I went for 2.4w/kg average, just kinda pootling along.
I had no route planned, but ended up doing a long-ish loop around, just enough to kill an hour at the speed I was going. Unfortunately it was Friday / Bank Holiday weekend rush hour traffic, and there were some idiots about desperate to shave 5 seconds off their commute home and willing to risk the lives of a cyclist to get there.
The hardest thing today was aiming for a clear mind. Sometimes, heck, in fact most of the time on the bike, my mind is blank. I just pedal, see the scenery, and the time passes. Not so today. I had work on my mind. That sucked. I’m convinced that it’s because I have so little else going on in my life right now that small issues at work suddenly seem bigger.
Anyway, that’s me done with the work for the week – now to consider whether to take tomorrow as a rest, or go with whatever The Sufferfest reckons as the pre-big day warm up ride. I’ll probably do as I’m told and follow their routine, though may have slightly overdone it today… but surely not by much?
Heck, at the end of the day, I’m no athlete. I’ll give this 4DP test my best effort, but whatever happens happens, right ?
Right.
