| Re: Beautiful ride but too tired.
"fastturtle" <fastturtle@answertonewsgroup.com> wrote in message
> Halfway through this final stretch, I catch sight of two more guys ahead
> of me. But there is no way I can follow them. At the end of the day, I
> have 172 km in the legs, 6:45 hours on this (too) new Brooks saddle. And I
> feel too tired. The kind of tiredness with which I don't eat well and
> don't sleep well. And this was _not_ my first ride since months. I have
> done another century last week-end (slower but which left me less tired,
> by the way), and another in late november. And I have my short ride to
> work every day. And I don't think I am overdoing it. And I have done
> faster _and_ longer rides. Why then am I so slow and so tired ? Is it
> because of winter ? This is depressing.
I had a similar thing happen to me this summer, which has continued
to the present time.
I rode northwestern Nebraska in some very hot weather and really tired
myself out (moreso as the ride was over dirt roads on my 37mm tires).
I continued on and met up with friends in central Iowa and we did the
last three days of RAGBRAI (paved roads). I actually got sick on one
of the days and was fortunate that the last three days of the ride were
low mileage.
I don't seem to ever have fully recovered though. My speeds cruising
to and from work are down a couple mph from "before Nebraska" and
perhaps a bit more than that now.
Certainly I've recovered from whatever bug I got in Iowa but I'm
coming to believe perhaps I'm just showing my age (55) as I'm
definitely more tired climbing hills and trying to maintain my old
cruise speeds.
I think perhaps I'm destined to be a slow, bicycling geezer from now on.
SMH
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