In my last post I told you that I had put my bike in for it’s first service. What I didn’t tell you was that I was feeling a bit run down that day. Well “a bit rundown” quickly became “quite unwell”, which in-turn became “really ill”. For the best part of three weeks I have been extremely unwell, including 6 days off work and two trips to the doctors. Last week I was better but it had left me energy-less and weak. I still feel quite low, but I decided today that I was going to cycle in an attempt to lift both my energy levels and my spirits.
So I pumped my tyres up to 100psi and set off for work this morning at about 8.45am. This is the first time I have cycled in my new cycling shoes and the corresponding pedals and I have to say I was quite impressed. They are going to take a bit of getting used to, both in getting my feet into them on the move and also getting my feet out of them. They are a lot better for my technique though, it’s a lot easier to pull on the upstroke as well as pushing on the down stroke.
Almost immediately I realised that my fitness has suffered greatly from having several weeks of inactivity. I struggled from the off, and I could not keep the pace that I am used to at all. On the one hand I am disappointed that I have let my fitness drop (and put on weight) but on the other hand it helped me to realise that I had actually got to quite a decent level in a short space of time, which has resolved me to keep up with it.
So I took my time, went at a fairly leisurely pace and didn’t try to take over much traffic in queues and such. I managed to get my feet in and out of the clips okay.
At least I was doing, until this small incident near town.
Posted under Daily Update
This post was written by Vini on October 20, 2008
