Work stress impact on cycling performance

[Slowbee]

Try and make 30mins time, it makes a difference.

 

Give me a shout if you need. 

Thanks Patch. Month end and LD3. It is all a bit chaotic.

[Duane_Bosch]

Not training, but moving meditation, moving medication. ‍♂

That's so funny.

 

I dated a wannabe hippy for a while and she once dragged me to a thing called movement medicine. Where you dance whilst sober. And she kept on going on about "being present"

 

The whole thing was laughable. If you want to be fully present ride an MTB on a scary trail. You'll be 100% present.

[Frosty]

My most stressful day by far, today. Start at 11:30, and I just got home now. A new learning experience for me.

 

Lots of attorneys, intermediaries, agents, vetting details, a client and the company I work for. I can’t reveal details, but I have now seen 10 digits as the value on the ICPO - before the decimal place.

 

1. One

2. Tens

3. Hundreds

4. Thousands

5. Ten Thousands

6. Hundred Thousands

7. Millions

8. Tens of Million

9. Hundreds of Million

10. Billions

 

Tomorrow we start over, and hopefully the customer gets their stock next week.

[Slowbee]

Ummm Frosty .... can you tell us which stock to buy .... or sell.

 

I promise I wont tell anyone on hubland.

[Frosty]

Ummm Frosty .... can you tell us which stock to buy .... or sell.

 

I promise I wont tell anyone on hubland.

pick from the short list of essential goods

[Jewbacca]

Im gonna sound whiney but I've taken a break until 1 June. Start of the year I tried to kick my training off better than any year. Had some personal goals to achieve and was on track. Lockdown. No problem, I have a trainer. Trained regularly and all good. Level four came in, and I rode every morning for the first week. Work ramped up, mornings got dark, and I found myself losing sleep over the anxiety of waking up early enough to ride but get back in time for work. Asked work if I can start my day an hour later, our company policy does allow it, but boss denied it... Lost more sleep, and had more anxiety about missing out on working out.

 

So I've taken a break. 1 June was great news, because I can ride in the afternoon, once work is done, and it's a little warmer, normally... The relief I've felt just letting it go and getting the work done, played more computer games, built more stuff, and yesterday managed to upgrade my MTB unexpectedly, it's been so much better for me. Less stress, I walk the dogs, and enjoy my surroundings. Normally riding is a stress relief, but under these circumstances, it just became an unnecessary stressor.

 

Can't wait to ride whenever, where ever, for however long in a week!

I'm in a similar boat..

 

1st few weeks of lockdown I was churning out huge miles on the trainer, climbing alp d'zwift 3 times a week, bashing out work outs and feeling like I was ready to ride a sub 4 Argus on my BMX no worries.

 

Things went a bit south for us, the wife went back to work and with no nanny and no help, I have been left on full time dad duty to a (currently) 9 month old boy who is teething, trying to walk and is non stop.

 

Throw in some financial 'stress' and trying to reinvent myself and a business bla bla and it gets a bit much. I have been lucky to run with the dog in the mornings and get on the trainer for 40 minutes when baba naps a couple of times a week. 

 

I honestly don't care. Him and I are now in the groove, he is happy, we have an awesome routine and I can feel him thriving in his growth.

 

I would have missed this through work, training and other relatively unimportant stuff and not even realised it. If I can say one thing, it is that I am really really grateful I have had this time with Maximus. My running and my riding is probably less than ideal currently, but I know I can pick that up again next week in the afternoon (provided the surfing ban thing is still shrouded in scientific weirdness)....

 

It's not as if I have a race to go out and smash in the next few months!