The Law Of Attraction In Action?

I’ve had a week of outdoor rides with interactions with idiot motorists. I’ve written about both and kinda don’t want to bang on about it again today.

But I did have three more incidents on today’s ride, two within 5 minutes of each other with people pulling out in front of me … how they don’t see me is some kind of scientific phenomenon that I feel requires further study. Or, you know… make people over 65 take a driving test every 5 years or so, for safety reasons?

Then the other one was some burger in his transit van, resplendent with England football flags (never a great sign of driver intelligence) who couldn’t wait to overtake me, only to immediately slam on and turn left into the local convenience shop. Moronic.

Here’s the thing though: it’s kinda cathartic for me to write about this stuff. It gets it out of my head, down on ‘paper’ and then I generally forget all about it.

However, is thinking and writing about it so much actually drawing more of it to me? If you buy into the woo-woo world of the law of attraction (I’m not dismissing it, but I don’t claim to understand it) then potentially me harping on about it is a possible cause of getting more of it?

Maybe I should keep writing about becoming a millionaire.

Or maybe I should go back to 80% of my rides being on the turbo. At least then I stand a chance of making it through the week with life and limb intact.

Anyway, enough of that.

The aim today was, again, to take it fairly easy. I wanted to get an hour in, 30km or so, and just sit at tempo where possible. I’d say mission accomplished. I deliberately stayed out in the countryside for as much of this one as possible. Excuse the crappy photo above… it’s the best of the bunch. In all the others I was smiling but the other thing behind me was a bush or some shrubs or whatever. At least that one has some semblance of scenary.

I’d have liked to have stayed out a bit longer today but had to be back for 10:45 for family reasons. So that’s a shame.

But the main thing is now to get a day, or maybe two, worth of rest before the next thing… the FTP Test.

Yowser.

I can’t remember at this point how the 4DP test goes, so I’m going to revisit my old post and give it a proper read.

I’m quite keen to get the test over and done with so I can go back to being lazy.

At least doing a turbo ride means no road users to avoid. I can’t even begin to imagine how hard it used to be before turbos existed to do any kind of timed / sustained efforts.