"No Pit Stops"

Must have been hot!  I ingested 4 1/2 litres of water and 1500 calories, and never once felt the urge.  The heat can sneak up on you when riding simply because it's hard to tell how much your sweating.  The wind evaporates most of it.  The need to pee is as good an indicator of the temp and humidex  as anything.  If you're drinking lost and don't need to go, you better drink some more! 

Anyhow.  While it wasn't a world record I go through my 180 kilometres fairly uneventfully. I was slow, but felt much better than I did last week.  It felt like a typical long ride today.  Tough mentally just because it's 6 hours long, but my legs felt normal.  Last week my quads were sore from the start, and never got better

I say "fairly" uneventful because I did have one hairy moment.  Hairy and ugly, with 4 legs and a yap full of sharp teeth.  I actually thought I was gonna get bit today, and I remember clearly bracing for it.    It's really cool actually how your mind functions in these situations.  Within the space of a second I went from fear to anger, and the sudden adrenalin rush somehow feels good.  Weird eh?  

So I was okay with my ride today, and even okay with my transition run, even though the wheels kinda fell off after 5 kms.  I managed to get that far with my 4/1 run/walk strategy, and then dragged my sorry ass back home to finish up the 8 kms.

So overall, while I'm not where I expected to be a month ago, I feel like I'm starting to climb out of the hole I've been in.  I hope the trend continues.  

Oh, by the way.  I was peeing within an hour of my workout which means I had no serious dehydration problems!   Good job!

And for today's inspiration I give you Electric Light Orchestra's classic beauty "Hold on tight to your dreams" 

"Hold on tight to your dream
Hold on tight to your dream
When you see your ship go sailing
When you feel your heart is breaking
Hold tight to your dream.

Its a long time to be gone
Time just rolls on and on
When you need a shoulder to cry on
When you get so sick of trying
Just hold tight to your dream

When you get so down that you can't get up
And you want so much but you're all out of luck
When you're so downhearted and misunderstood
Just over & over & over you could

Accroches-toi a ton reve
Accroches-toi a ton reve
Quand tu vois ton bateau partir
Quand tu sents -- ton coeur se briser
Accroches-toi a ton reve.

Hold on tight to your dream
Hold on tight to your dream
When you see the shadows falling
When you hear that cold wind calling
Hold on tight to your dream.

Oh, yeah
Hold on tight to your dream
Yeah, hold on tight...
To your dream."---Jeff Lynne

Love

Peter