So, yesterday I went out for a 138 mile ride. Starting in April I decided to do a century at the end of each month until October, when I turn 30. This is in anticipation of a tour of Sacramento Valley that I have been wanting to do for years...

However, right now I'm working six days a week with overtime hours, and am not home much. When I returned from last month's century my wife was rather upset that I couldn't be home with her, and I said I would only ride on the last Sunday of each month, doing the rest of my training in the gym or morning rides. As it turns out, she was still quite upset yesterday because I had not been home all week and still missed our day together. I promised that I would stop the long rides on Sundays so that we could be together, which effectively kills my plan to do the tour - the idea of which, it turns out, also annoyed her a lot because she would not be able to join me.

Now I'm left with a pile of lovely old bicycles and a vow to ride much less than I have been until I find work that allows time for such activity. That could be years!

I'm rather disheartened, but I have a lot of hobbies and I truly have been neglecting just about everything except my garden lately because of bicycles and cycling.

*sigh*

I know a lot of folks around here are seasonal riders, or probably had busy periods during their lives, so I'm surely not alone. This is the only place I really communicate about my cycling hobby so I felt an urge to post. I hope everyone has a good week!

-Gregory