Rider: Andy
Bike: Canonndale -
Focus on your own agenda/goals: So i chose to come in on this bike today, as i am out riding from Crystal palace tomorrow. Maybe i am a little tired, but i was knackered cycling in and I had to muster all my energy to even overtake someone on a boris bike. The fact that i trained legs two days ago might have something to do with it.
A problem i have and something that i am now trying to resist, is not letting other peoples efforts affect my agenda. So often, i will chase after someone and attempt to blow them away on a hill or on the way to work, or just try and keep up with them -just to prove what? That I can go faster? That i can keep up?
The thing i have come to realise and i must say, something i know full well from working out at the gym, is that we are all training to meet our own goals and trying to catch someone up in Richmond Park for instance, or trying to lift the same weight, may seem like a good idea, but in doing so, you might knacker yourself at the very least. They might be doing one lap and your goal might be 4 or 5, so completely different agenda.
So, don't, however frustrating it might be, get dragged from your agenda or goals and into some competitive rage, just to prove a point. It is not going to do you any good in the long-run. Keep focussed on your own goals. Having said that I am still finding it very hard to keep to - down boy.
Location: Camberwell - Holborn - Crystal Palace
Weather: Dry, cold and breezy (5 degrees)
Total Mileage: 14 miles
Route: Walworth Road/Elephant & Castle/Blackfriars/Farringdon Road/Chancery Lane/Gray's Inn Road/Theobalds Road/Waterloo/kennington/Brixton/Herne Hill/Croxted Road/Crystal Palace
Time: 8.50am
Food: Weetabix with Honey, Banana, Kiwi, Tea, Chicken and Couscous, Meal Replacement Bar - now this is where it goes downhill - Stir-fry Chicken & veg, Ice cream, Yoghurt, 9 squares of mint Green & Blacks.
Weight: 11st 2 3/4lbs (weighed am - naked apart from pair of socks)
Mechanicals: NON
Gym: Evening session - Shoulders & Back
Video of the day: http://vimeo.com/190599480
Thanks to Raph for putting this together - its a great record of a lot of the cycling we have done in 2010.
Photo of the day: I arrived at Grants to find he had made me a welcoming cup of tea
in a Dorothy mug lol, with the inscription "Dear Dorothy, I hate Oz, took the shoes, find your own way home" - Toto
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