36,500km in 365 days - Cycling Against Living Miserably

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frank9755 in reply to @Norfolkbound

Re: work I ditch riding to focus on work if it's worthwhile. A new role probably is so maybe sink some time into that now, while you're recovering from the year. For me, if it's dumb shit, I'll focus more on riding and just do the work around it. You still gotta pay the bills though, right? I normally move into new position and smash it for a bit to make myself lookr awesome then back off and hand bits over once they're sorted and look at other stuff. Kinda depends what your employer expects of you. I'm technical so not responsible for shit. If it breaks it was like that when I found it... :D

Congratulations on the promotion. Pretty amazing to get it in spite of having a few other things going on in the background!

I can understand the feeling of finishing a big challenge and not feeling good about not doing much now. Have you got a next event lined up? Having a low after a big ride is a really common thing. The only known cure is to enter something else.

I find it hard to train unless I'm training for something. Actually that's a lie, I don't find it hard at all, I just don't do it, so it's quite easy, just makes me feel crap!

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hippy in reply to @frank9755

The only known cure is to enter something else.

You're probably being a bit tongue in cheek, but if you're aware of the slump - and you and I definitely are because we seem addicted to this nonsense - then you can still channel your energy into something else. After the last big one of the year I typically get onto the piss (yeah, even more) for a bit but then find a work project or home project to put some energy into. Just something else to occupy that extra time, that's not riding. I then ride when I actually feel like it rather than as some kind of compulsion.

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frank9755 in reply to @hippy

I tend to go off riding afterwards for a bit but haven't been successful at channeling my sudden increase of spare time into other things. But a couple of times after ultras, I've been really busy at work, and it has helped to ease back in.

But then I've only done a couple of these things IRL - mostly I just talk about them all the time and pretend to know what I am on about - when it comes to actually doing them, you are the expert!

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