Well the last couple of weeks have been a bit of an all round fail. Basically two key things happened which caused me to not do any cycling.
Firstly, two games that I have been waiting for for 4 and 2 years respectively came out. Spore and Warhammer Online. Both amazing games and I only stopped played one because of the other. These are two games I will probably be playing during my spare time for at least the next couple of years.
The second, and more significant thing was that I tried to give up Pepsi Max, cold turkey. This was an awful idea, and absolutely destroyed my sleeping schedule. I had chronic insomnia and only managed to get to work on time by staying up all night every other night. After ten days it still hadn’t settled down, even after starting drinking Pepsi again - so I took two holiday days off work to sort it out.
That was Wed/Thu last week, it almost did the trick but I was still off and ended up staying up all night Thursday. On Friday at work we were celebrating our five year anniversary, we spent the day doing activities in Harrogate followed by an evening meal, boozy evening and a night over in a hotel (the Barcelo Majestic in Harrogate). On Saturday I was in no fit state to cycle, as you might imagine, I spent most of the weekend recovering.
Monday, yesterday, however, I rode in to work! 
I was absolutely determined to get back into it and not lose my motivation, and I did the journey in a record 35 minutes. As part of my efforts to maintain my motivation I am going to put up a new “achievements” page which will double up as a goals page. Basically I am going to set myself a load of tasks; weight related, distance/speed related, and so on. These are goals I will work towards and try to complete on my journey.
Today I took my bike into the shop for its first service, I also bought some proper cycling shoes and the pedals to go with them. I am looking forward to trying them out, but the bike will be in the shop until Thursday, so I wont get chance to try them out until Friday.
In the meantime I will get that goals page done!
Incidentally, if you happen to be playing Warhammer Online in Europe I am on the Dragonback Mountain server, come say hi!
Posted under Daily Update
This post was written by Vini on September 29, 2008
Hooray, an update.
I thought I suggested you ween yourself off caffeine? Oh well.
What kind of shoes/pedals did you get?