Week four - Thursday to Sunday

I’ve haven’t really been feeling it cycling wise this week, which is bizarre given the wonderful weather. I gave Thursday a miss as I knew I was going out on Friday. I did go out on Friday with the husband on a beautiful ride. We did it in a good time and thoroughly enjoyed it, tweaking our favourite route meaning we did not have to ride down a very busy main road. I knew I had a busy weekend planned with a fete on Saturday and an afternoon out on Sunday but if I am honest I still could easily have fitted the two rides I should have done in. However, for some reason my heart wasn’t in it and I made fairly weak excuses to not go out. I’m not sure why I wasn’t in the mood. I think I partly wanted to spend the days sitting in the garden with my family rather than off out by myself. Also cycling seems to take up my every waking moment currently. I have spent a small fortune on equipment, think constantly about the sportive in August and talk about little else. In many ways I was bound to hit a bit of a wall and begin to view it with a certain amount of animosity. Having an off weekend doesn’t really matter in the cosmic scheme of things as I am ahead of the training programme due to my miscounting. However, I know myself and it would be very easy to slip into feeling apathetical about cycling, reduce my training then have a full on panic in the summer. Consequently I am starting this week afresh with enthusiasm. I intend to pretty much keep repeating the basic programme of rides of about an hour duration on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday (at least). When I get to 16/06/14 the training programme will have caught back up with me and I will be at week 5. In the interim though I need to get my eye back on the ball and fall back in love with my bike. I’m sure I’ll get there.