Originally Posted by gregjones

The good news is that I got a job!!!! Five and a half months off. I've leave the truck in the driveway and ride the bike to the stores and the Post Office with my eBay sales. The PO is quite a climb from my house. When I don't have do go anywhere special, I ride down to "town" then back up. That gets some, although not a lot of riding every day. There are NO flat roads around here.

The ride to work is only 4.5 miles and mostly down hill. Great, I wouldn't get to work tired. The going part worked fine. It was the hills on the way home that knocked me out.

I got up at 0400 to get to work at 0530 the first day for a 0600 shift. Then discovered I wasn't scheduled to start at 0600 but at 1800!!!! But, I had driven the truck for the first day so gettin' home was nothing, except I had slept all night and was ready to go. I managed to get about 2 1/2 hours sleep.

I hadn't done a bit of work in almost 6 months and this new warehouse job beat me up after having only a bit of sleep. I was dead tired, and sore, when the shift was over. I knew it would be a challange since it hurt just to get on the bike!! I made it two miles towards the house and had to "sissy" out. I called the wife at 0245 in the morning to come fetch my beat old butt.

I'd done the trip before starting.........I just didn't figure on getting 57 year old bones home after "working". I'm not out yet---just having to get used to working the riding. I guess it's just a matter of a higher fittness level.