There are certain things you just can't get by riding in the basement. Like sunburn and transport trucks, like grit in your eyes and bugs in your ears, like rain and thunder and lightning, etc etc. But the most important thing that's available outside that you can't get inside is what I call my "farmers tired". Somehow all of those things of nature (minus the fuckin trucks), give you an all over feel good kind of tired. The kind of tired that seems to say, "you earned your dinner"
Today I rode to Ingersol and back which worked out pretty good since Ingersol is about 60 kms from here, or more importantly approximately a 2 hour ride. It was my first serious outdoor attempt. This time around my long rides are gonna be based exclusively on time rather than distance, and furthermore I'm gonna do them at an easier pace. Coincidentally my 4 hours turned into 120 kms and then I followed it up with a 4 km run/walk with my new 4/1 strategy. It all felt very, very good. I still have no idea however if I've actually gotten any faster on my bike, and I may not know until race day. That's the problem when you're always, always tired.
So that's it for today. I'm gonna have one more cookie and maybe an ice cream, and go to bed. I got another big day tomorrow, fixing a huge section of fence that my friend the farmer took out with his 40 foot cultivator!! I wonder if he's feeling tired? Sitting in his air conditioned 300 HP tractor I bet not! Mind you, he was still out there when I came in at 9 pm!!
“He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man”---Henry Ward Beecher
Today I rode to Ingersol and back which worked out pretty good since Ingersol is about 60 kms from here, or more importantly approximately a 2 hour ride. It was my first serious outdoor attempt. This time around my long rides are gonna be based exclusively on time rather than distance, and furthermore I'm gonna do them at an easier pace. Coincidentally my 4 hours turned into 120 kms and then I followed it up with a 4 km run/walk with my new 4/1 strategy. It all felt very, very good. I still have no idea however if I've actually gotten any faster on my bike, and I may not know until race day. That's the problem when you're always, always tired.
So that's it for today. I'm gonna have one more cookie and maybe an ice cream, and go to bed. I got another big day tomorrow, fixing a huge section of fence that my friend the farmer took out with his 40 foot cultivator!! I wonder if he's feeling tired? Sitting in his air conditioned 300 HP tractor I bet not! Mind you, he was still out there when I came in at 9 pm!!
“He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man”---Henry Ward Beecher
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Peter
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