Tour de "Oh my God, my back hurts!"

[Veronica]

You cannot compare yourself to other people Jo! You have to listen to your own body. And it is suppose to be fun!

You know how much I am questioning whether or not I want to keep doing these long rides. Part of that is because I am not sure they are all that much fun anymore. Time limits and rides that go through less interesting places just to get mileage that ends in a zero, having to get up at the crack of dawn to get to the start...

I only truly felt like crap the last thirty miles or so - the flat ones! Yeah, I had issues before that, but they would come and go. I know in any long ride there will be times when I am just going to feel yucky. Sometimes I just know the yuck is going to go away... when I get the tailwind, when I get off this climb... And sometimes your body just says, "Get me off this damn bike now!" Three miles from the end, riding into a headwind, knowing I was not going to break 10 hours, I had this urge to throw my bike to my ground and just stop. But I knew a good chunk of that urge came from knowing I was not going to have the finishing time I wanted...

Anyway... stop beating yourself up. It sounds like your body was telling you something and it is good that you listened.

V.

[jobob]

Okey-doke.

I think I'm more just frustrated that once again I didn't get that 200K in. I may just need to give up on the R12 concept, for now.