If you cycle for a living what do you do if you are stressed? Do you go to an office? Spend a day working in a factory? Get rat arsed or beat the wife up? I only ask because I am finding that cycling is doing the trick for de-stressing me. It's fair to say that this past week hasn't been one I'll be thinking of fondly for years to come, in fact there's been times when some of the above options sounded and felt like a good idea. Nevertheless, the weather gods were reasonable and I managed to get some miles in and felt the better for it.
My friend CC (currently an ex cyclist sadly for him) doesn't like the sound of the wind in his ears, in fact we spent some time planning a world beating invention to solve the problem. For me though I like the sound, I picture it as all the bad shit tumbling down the road behind me.
For a variety of reasons I struggled to get many miles in this month, in fact less than half of what I did in August. One highlight worth mentioning though, had me nowhere near a bike - or in fact very close to about 100 bikes. I went up to London to watch the Tour of Britain reach it's finale, and it's certainly given me the taste for watching some more. Perhaps I'll have to plan something for the Olympics.
Good to be a cyclist at the moment, weather gorgeous, Cav is the world champion, and stress never stays around for long. Happy days.
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