Riding to Work: Day 2

Sorry I couldn’t post this yesterday. It was a rough day.

Alternate post title: One day, many failures

The day started out fine, just as it had the day before. It was about 7^o warmer than Day 1, so the gloves and jeans made it quite warm to ride. But I noticed I was a lot more tired than the day before, and I even slept great.

Then the day unraveled.

I had to wait 20 minutes at Chris’ work for him to finish what he was doing, we got home later than we wanted so we couldn’t really cram study last minute or make dinner before we went to school, I totally flunked my midterm and will be lucky to get any points, and after that embarrassment, I had to sit through class and struggle to keep up for the rest of the night as my body was shutting down from exhaustion.

How does this have anything to do with riding your bike, you ask?

Have you ever started a more rigorous routine only to find that it bites you in the butt?

At night, I’m drained and ready to go to bed at 7pm, as my body just completely shuts down. I even went to bed early last weekend. The night before my midterm, I had procrastinated and couldn’t properly study because I was falling asleep at the computer. So I decided to do it yesterday at my lunch break, which didn’t work all that well, and I wasn’t able to review some questions I had with Chris because we got home late. This biking thing, although totally awesome, is kicking my butt. I’m abnormally tired, and it’s getting in the way of how I typically function.

And apparently, time management is not my strong suit this week.

So Chris and I are going to ride to work 3-4 days per week (and likely not on school nights) until I can get my equilibrium about this whole exhaustion thing. (A coworker mentioned Epstein Barr about a month ago when this happened before I began riding my bike again…aka. Chronic fatigue…that might be the culprit. I dunno, I just feel like something’s wrong with me! This can’t be normal…can it?)

But I do look forward to the bike rides, especially in getting my legs and heart back into great shape!

Just gotta keep on keepin’ on.