Not such a great ride..

This Saturday showed me again what I knew all along: Balancing my job, family and training is a real balancing act. Things don't always turn out the way they should. After a great 'stacking week' the week before I had to work late every single night last week. Not always being great at just switching off, I would often not fall asleep until way after midnight. Apparently our one year old Liam does not really care and 530 am is his normal getting up time no matter when his dad goes to bed :-) Result: totally overtired into the weekend. A relatively short ride (for a weekend) was on the program: 6 hours. I felt decent for the first 2 hours but then the lights went out. An 'deep in your bones' tiredness overcame me and I decided to cut the ride short to four hours and have a two hours nap. Fell into bed and did not wake up until dinner time.

Being a very structured (and I like to think organized ) person, this would have gotten into my head even a few years ago: I don't like not finishing what I have set out to do. I have learned though to listen to my body: I now am much better at distinguishing between the true need to rest and simply being a bit lazy. Yesterday was certainly the former..

A new week and my resolution is: NO LATE nights for work this week. Training will be relatively easy with about 12-14 hrs. Saturday is the SIR 100 km brever which I will extend to a century.

I am looking forward to our crew meeting this Tuesday. The RAAM crew of seven is coming together nicely. I will write more about these truly great people shortly here. Signing off for some shut eye now...