Losing your mojo

@jim1985 fancy doing that ^ together one evening?

#reportedforgrooming

10 laps of college road.

Ha, last time I did that I managed 4.

I would happily join on this. No mojo right now.

I'm solo babysitter till the second half of Jan, but let's try to make it happen.

I've got to get right back in to something when I get back to the UK. That CCC is looming large.

Races are over in Jan..

I'm near Denmark Hill and would be up for your evening Kent adventures @jim1985 @mashton

I did something similar for a lot of last year in late summer and autumn, and it was great.

CCC?

Cent Cols Challenge.

Ah. Just a few bumps for the mighty Dov.

I don't think anyone finds it 'easy'

Graeme has done two of them now and his opinion is that it's a war of attrition.

Right up your strasse then.

When are you back? Ride? Not seen you for agggess

I'm back on the 7th. Will ride that weekend!

Sounds good

I did college road x 8 this morning. It's fucking boring.

Bike was broken for over a month, fixed now.

I have lost most of my cycling fitness and all of my cycling mojo, add it to the fact that I haven't seen the sun in a good few weeks, just thick grey clouds daily here in Edinburgh.

I really can't bring myself to ride. My working days are spent planing rides for my days off, when they come around I bail on the plans. le sigh

it can be useful to have other people to ride with

Trying to maintain volume, nearly managing. But I simply can't bring myself to do a decent interval.

When it's not icy out I'm on the fixed gear.
When it's proper nasty I'm on the turbo with no gears due to a dead di2 battery.
I can't really run as my pelvis is weirdly locked.

It's all a bit Shit really.

I've lost my mojo for club rides. They get faster, I get older and slower.
I wouldn't mind being bailed out of the back whilst blowing like a whale - the fact is I never get there! I can't even get on the back!

Instead, I've now taken to getting up later on a weekend and go out for a 30 mile ride on my steamroller and call in for a pint on my way home. Result much happiness.
Old and slow is the way to go and I get to admire the flora and fauna of
my local areas. Basically I set myself the goal of being able to ride 50 mile
touring days in summer. I think I can keep this going for a while. It's liberating in that I don't have to buy the latest kit too.

Every time I try to ride my bike I think fuck that and put my trainers on and go running.

I'm broken

nah, shit weather, shit roads=fuck this.

I took 6 weeks off and just now feel like riding again, but better for it I think as flogging yourself to go out on a ride isn't fun and probably isn't good for either brain or body.

At least you're running?

You can squire my unbecoming self around decent rides around the 'burgh sometime soon if you're lucky as I might be moving over in Feb. That'll really take the shine of your recreational pleasure even if it does make you feel comparatively fit.

At least you're running?

Aye, been fair weather for that of late.

This time last year I had training plans, races and all sorts. But perhaps a break was due.

running.

Won't somebody think of your knees?