Originally Posted by
Milton Keynes
Only time I feel like not riding is when I feel like I still need some sleep when my alarm goes off at 5 AM.
That's pretty much what happened the last two times I decided to set up for a long ride. Only I cancelled the alarm after a few hours of trying to sleep when I was still awake at 3 AM.
On Friday I then slept until mid-morning, figuring I'd just do the ride one-way rather than a partial round trip to break my previous personal distance. But by the time I actually got up to the start of the trail it was after 1pm, which meant there was no tolerance for anything to go wrong. Trying to keep speed up, I fell.
Originally Posted by
billyymc
If you want to ride, but don't have time for the ride you were thinking about, find a different ride. Sometimes riding doesn't have to be about pushing it. There are times I go out and just wander. I may end up doing 15 miles, or I may end up doing 50 or 60 miles.
The problem is that I've not done over 20 miles in a month now. The little rides are not worthless, but they're not maintaining my ability to do 50 or 60 miles, or push that north of 70...
There's some truth in there though - often the rides that have been nice I've started with the feeling of "let's get up to the rail bridge and then see" rather than "I'm going to ride 70 miles today... er, well maybe 50?". Of course the rail bridge is about 60% of the way, and north of all the annoyances, so I've never felt like turning back from there to face them again rather than press on.