bicycle blahs

[sundial]

I don't know why but lately I have no desire to ride. I rode through most of January but I don't want to ride now. I have a new Spinervals DVD that I haven't even opened yet. I don't even want to ride my mtb. It's sunny today and feels like early spring, but I have no desire to go out and enjoy the fresh air. Has anyone else experienced this?

[Geonz]

A little down time is fine ... but sometimes I have to get past an invisible doldrum barrier and just inform my moribund self that I am getting on the bicycle and riding two miles thank you.
Generally that reminds the body-mind-soul continuum of the joy therein.

[mimitabby]

happens to me from time to time as well. If it persists, you really have to grab yourself by the shoulders and get your butt in gear. Sometimes people need a few days of downtime. But if you get USED to that, that's your muscles atrophying as we speak...

[F8th637]

I get that way too. I had a bit of a bout of that in the summer. Previously I had been obsessed with riding and then all that passion was gone for a little while. I worried it wouldn't come back. But it did! I think that for me this will happen every now and then. Could it be you are overtraining too? That'll do it also.

[Starfish]

Sometimes if I feel like that, a week off the bike, but doing something else, helps. Like swimming workouts for a week, or gym workouts on the elliptical, or just something other than biking.

[indysteel]

I feel that way myself at the moment. It's a good thing that the weather is a bigger deterent at the moment than my lack of motivation. I'm kind of enjoying a different workout routine right now. That said, I'll be ready to go when the weather starts cooperating.