I have seen that the first day is fantastic, you can go forever. The second day is a major drag. What happened? The third day is almost the same, a bit better. But starting on day four you are in a routine and things start to go much smoother. The trick comes on day 14 when you really are dug in deep. Day 14 is when things get very smooth and extremely routine. You can literally just keep going. You get so use to it that you don't think a thing about continuing on. Even when doing high mileage days you can just keep going, you are so use to biking when you have did it for 14 days that it's effortless.

I'm starting to notice that now. I was in a rush to get things around home set up for winter so I have been riding, compared to the rest of this crappy year, decent miles. 14 days ago I started riding basically 100km each daily, just trying to get everything done before the cold weather set in. I normally always have a pack, day or full backpack, on my back everyday during the warm months. I always make a homemade rear rack for the bike for winter use to keep the pack off the back and keep it from trapping body heat. Once I finally finished up with the winter prep errands I just kept riding 100k a day just to see how long I could keep it up. Yesterday and todays ride have pretty much been effortless. It feels like the good old days from summer 2012 again. I just wish the air density was a lot lower and I wasn't pushing so much darn air out of the way all the time. Boy my average speed is abysmal.