Weather: Spring! Warm! Tshirt!
Activity: Mountain bike, 25.51km mixed (trail and dubs) , 1hr 42 mins in the saddle, 578ft ascent
Today's Tune: Didn't have one
Comment: I need sleep
I'm tired. I'm just plain tired. Its not age (no its not!) Late nights and very e'arly mornings, a particularily nasty virus and general busy-ness interspersed with random and spurious forms of exercise have left me a bit er...flat. I'm not inspired to write but feel I need to so here I am.
It all started on Saturday night when we went to a ceilidh at the Lonach Hall, Strathdon with our friends Sandy & Carol. Clachan Yell were playing. Awesome, awesome night. I am a huge ceilidh fan and regard it as as close to an Olympic Sport as I will ever get and subsequently train for these events with the same dedication and commitment that Ms Bjoergen does for XC Skiing. My 'Eightsome Reel' still needs some work but I can 'Orcadian Strip the Willow' till I'm the last one left standing. I ran/danced into most of Banchory despite Strathdon being some 40 odd miles away. That's the good things about ceilidh's. You can, and will, dance with anyone and everyone. And if you're sat, you won't be for long. Got to (our kind hosts spare) bed via taxi about 2.30am and was home to relieve the babysitters at 7.30am. I am only glad I didn't drink...much. Sooooo.....4 hours of non stop wheeching. Approx cals burnt 28,000.
3 hours after getting home I was heading up north to visit my son, and then my mother/parents for Mothers day. It was a lovely day but its a long drive - 150 mile round trip and I was knackered by the time I got home at suppertime. Aforementioned bug began to take hold later that evening and by Monday morning I was a disaster area - thumping headache, aching head to toe (that may have been partly the dancing..), nauseous and just bleurgh. I took about 4 seconds convincing to take the Landy to work and not cycle. I would have stayed at home and called in sick but with people on holiday, we're short staffed so I had to go in. Tuesday was much the same and I was in bed by 8pm last night.
Today though, I felt a good bit better (hurrah!) and though I had an inner struggle with the whole Landy v cycle thing at 6am, the sun streaking through the curtains meant the cycle was always going to win and so in fabulously springlike temps, I took Bob along the river. It was great and I arrived at work (way too early) with a grin on my face. And half a ton of mud. Riverside ride home this afternoon and stopped for a while to sit by the water and just bathe in the sunlight and enjoy the peace and quiet.
I need some more days like that but the rest of this week is looking seriously hectic. Still, its not long till I'm off to the West Coast with mates for some hills. I cannot wait.
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