Today I rode from Vienna out to Ashburn on the W&OD
trail. Things to remember before
undertaking a trip like that on a sunny hot day: sunscreen.
And sports goo. Oh, and it helps
to have eaten a decent meal sometime beforehand. A cup of yogurt doesn’t give you much to go
on. So I was kinda riding on empty but
thankful for my natural nervous energy, which I can channel into physical energy,
it turns out. I finished in time to change
my clothes in the parking lot and head to wonderful Dr. Krakos, the
chiropractor who tuned me up to be in perfect alignment (or as close to that as
possible for me).
What I learned from this bike ride: I have no desire to ride much further than I
went today. Two-plus hours on a bike
just seems like ENOUGH. While riding I
thought about the distance I was covering and how people used to get around on
horses to cover these distances, and how much physical energy it took just to
go a few measly miles that I don’t even think about when I’m in my Prius. My
only exhaustion from driving around here is from sitting in traffic. But our pioneer people, they must’ve been
exhausted all the time and chowing down like lumberjacks just from the sheer
physicality of their travel.
With the Tri only 5 days away, I feel like I have to focus
my training on learning how to eat like a lumberjack.
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