But I rode anyways.
Seriously, this was the kind of morning that would have forced me into a car last year. I was honestly considering catching the Dreaded Bus to get to work. It practically offers me Door-To-Door service. This, however, would be cheating, or I'd feel like it is. It really is great to be able to have the absolute worst case scenario available and still have a car-free way to get to work. I really want to make it through the winter without missing a SINGLE bike commute day, though. Taking the Dreaded bus wouldn't ding me as a car commute day (thank goodness), but it wouldn't count as a bike commute day, either.
No. Bullheaded as I am, I rode to my usual brumal bus stop at an average clip of about 8 miles per hour. This is about 50% slower than my usual pace on my mountain bike, about half the usual pace on my road bike (which is the same as hammerfest pace on my MTB), and about 1/4 my hammerfest pace on the road bike -- Just to put things into perspective. I. Was. S. L. O. W. this morning.
Once downtown, I hung out with JR over a warm cup o' joe for a while before heading to work. His birthday was this week, but for some reason he insisted on buying me coffee. Odd, but appreciated.
As far as the tired goes... I'm not sure what the deal is. I get the same amount of sleep every night for the most part, but I think it might not be enough. As the week wears onward, I always seem to feel a little more fatigued. Couple that with the fact that I'm still expected to put out about the same amount of productivity this week as any other week despite having a holiday on Monday, and you've got a recipe for some serious crash-n-burn syndrome. My eyes are burning. My head hurts. My legs are sore, and it's certainly not from all the miles I've been (not) packing on. I'm thinking I should schedule an hour-long meeting over my lunch break in one of the small, windowless conference rooms on the other side of our building...
Random Tunage from my PsyTrance playlist:
Infected Mushroom - None of this is real
Growling Mad Scientists - Shrek
Friday, January 25, 2008
Just too tired this morning
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3 comments:
*Nurse mode On* Noah, How long have you been fatigued? Any Weight gain? Muscle Aches?? *Nurse mode off* If it isn't simple fatigue from milage and lack of sleep I'd consider hypothyroidism.
It's probably lack of sleep and/or getting old.
I have a cycle of approximately three weeks in which I live my normal life; not enough sleep, bicycling every day, etc, followed by a random night (usually Thursday, for some reason) when I suddenly hit the wall and crash out at 6:30 or 7:00 PM.
The, I'm up and back at it at 5:00, the next day. This has been my pattern for about 15 years, now, and I have come to think of it as normal.
Get some rest, and feel better.
Jon
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