Year on year, the same thing is true - January and February are the most difficult months to get through. This year was looking good, I was 90% of the way through January and was still feeling excellent - was getting out on the bike loads, meeting up with friends a fair bit, had started going to the indoor climbing wall, and generally speaking it was all good - I was dealing with winter.
Then I contracted manflu!
This variant of manflu caused me to be physically quite weak, not be able to concentrate on anything at all complicated at work or deal with any decent conversation, and just generally made me feel pretty rough.
I have managed to fight off the plague now, and have been trying to restart everything again which is difficult when your routine is halted at the worst possible time of the year! The max weight I can lift in the gym has dropped by 10-15Kg and I am sure I have lost some fitness (not overly bothered about all this because I am still recovering but it does suck).
To compound to this, the following stuff of mine has been broken recently which in general I cannot afford to replace:
- Bike Saddle
- Large Chainring
- Waterproof
- Camelbak
- ECG strap for Heart Rate Monitor
I have had to buy a new saddle because I can’t really ride with a bust one, so I decided to get a Selle Italia SLR XC saddle (£55) … mmmm!
Anyway, with all the negativeness above, winter is quite good occasionally - Had a great snowy mountain bike ride yesterday, pics here, and also a great picture from last winter here … awesome.
Come now Sandy, you have a flickr stream, tags and a section called meta. You’re at least web 1.5!
Comment by Bradlay Law — February 12, 2007 @ 5:37 pm
Yeah, I’d agree with it being Web 1.5. Get yourself a nice reflection going on the page title and you’ll be full on Web 2.0, up there with the best of them.
Comment by Douglas F Shearer — February 22, 2007 @ 12:57 pm