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Can you cut work hours? Or like, take a bit of cheeky nap time during the day or something?
Tiredness will make you grumpy and emotionally "swingy". That's why to 'normal' people I appear bipolar.
Eating enough? Food helps but it can't make up for needing more sleep.
Can you do something interesting/different for a mental reset?
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I'd love to cut down my hours but that's not likely as my work isn't flexible at hours, old school family company that thinks you can only work in the office and you should be available at all times even on holiday. That's the reason I have 2 phones... I might just have to use more of my holiday and see if I can get some unpaid if needed.
That's literally me, very swingy and it only takes something like unexpected rain to make me grumpy.
Definitely eating enough, I barely stop eating throughout the day and my weight has been very consistent since I started. When I feel tired, I eat and drink. I might try and nap at lunch time, sadly I get half an hour but that still helps.
I'm looking at houses to buy atm which is something different and exciting. Buying with my GF is a fun prospect as we can actually get a decent house in a good location so the cycling is still good. I can't complain about the Norfolk roads for riding ;) We're trying to avoid the buy/move until I've finished this but that's only 6/7months away.
At 6 months, I could just buy myself a present to say well done for being half way... I have been thinking a lot about what I will do after I've finished. It'll definitely be race related but I'm uncertain to whether it'll be as a road racer or ultra related
Norfolkbound
Day 160.
I'm going through some highs and lows of this challenge at the moment, I'm approaching the half way mark but I'm feeling pretty flat. I'm getting pretty tired of feeling tired all the time now... With working a 45 hour week and riding anywhere between 22-30 hour weeks, leaves me with very little chill time and I need to sleep more. My routine has been fine until now, I feel pretty exhausted emotionally. Physically my body is performing well since I've gotten over the knee issues and I'm feeling exceptionally strong on the bike but the fatigue is taking it's toll emotionally.
I find it really hard to update this when it's going well, more because it seems crazy that at that moment I'm finding cycling 100km daily easy and a huge number of being struggle to exercise so I don't like to gloat about what I'm trying to achieve.
I need a holiday/LEJOG really, it's a shame it's been delayed by 4 weeks as I would of loved to start this on Friday like originally planned. The 30th of July just seems so far away...