Last few days I've been sick. Just the common cold. Coughing, runny nose, watery eyes, low energy and the rest of the crap that goes with being sick. A day before I became ill I came across a cycling blog The Human Cyclist and the post "Unstructured structure -Agile training plans".
In this post the author discusses the idea of listening to your body to determine the progression of your training rather relying on training plans and schedules. I think this is a great idea and I'm very happy with myself to have stayed off the bike while I was sick. This is easier said than done. The days I was sick I was thinking "must get on the bike". Fortunately the rational part of my brain told me "Your sick dummy go to bed!" and thank goodness I listened. There have been other times when I ignored my body and rode hard on the bike while I was sick. I ended up making myself sicker and prolonging the agony. When I examine why do this I think its because my body will try to lie to me. Sometimes my body will say "Steve you're too tired to go out for a ride." I ignore my body and go for a ride and its the best thing I've done for myself all day. However, other times my body was right I was too tired.
In the end you have to constantly examine and reexamine yourself. You have to know yourself well. You need to know when your being truthful or monkeying with yourself. The relationship with yourself that cycling creates is sensational. Its another reason I love this sport.
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