Knowing when to say "when"...
 

I'm freakin tired. On today's ride I was so tired that I started to understand what the term "bonk" means. After 3 years of riding and almost 20,000 miles (most of these on mountain bikes on unpaved roads) I've been tired, but i dunno if i've ever been THIS tired. I have been busy working on the house the last week almost non stop and of course I've continued to ride every morning, as per normal.

Last night i knew I was pretty wiped but I really wanted to get a road ride in this morning because it was a holiday and because it was so nice. I should have listened to my body, because now I feel like hammered ****.

The constant work on the house and all the normal miles has left me in a pile. I will rest in the morning and not ride and hope I am spry again by the next day. But for now I am simply wiped out! Anybody else have trouble knowing when to say WHEN?

I run out of time before anything else gives out. Still, on days when I'm tired to start with, I'm more apt to have stiff muscles the next day, and this after roughly comparable rides. Psychologically tired, I can understand, but stiff. . . ?

OT but where do you ride at? The weather was GORGEOUS today and I saw a lot of people out.

"Bonk" is not the same as "burnout".

Bonk is a physical condition due to lack of sugar.

Burnout is part physical, part mental. You recover by taking some time off, but it generally takes a lot more time than you'd think to get back.

We did 64 miles yesterday and I was nearly sick at the end of the ride. I was really feeling like a wuss until I found that several folks on the ride had bonked.

No more long rides like that without a meal stop for this old dude. Forty-five miles is about all I can do on Clif bars and GU.

Gas stations are lovely places. I took a 60 mile ride in the foothills yesterday. After running low on water and most of my energy being gone I hit a conoco. butterfinger..... yummy
Worked great.

Anyhow, bonking is quite annoying. I have only done this once and could barely move. It took my 90 minutes to ride 5 miles. Never again!
I think I had a partial bonk a few weeks ago. After sprinting home my hands were shaking so much it took me 10 minutes to make a PGJ sandwich. However, that could be something entirely different. *shrugs*

Burn out just takes time to get over. It happens to me from time to time.

Dude, you're just getting old.