I haven’t been in a club run for so long that I had lost all the morning routines. Wheels needed to be pumped, breakfast took a bit too long, and I had to go back into the house twice for things I had forgotten. I was lucky I still remembered where my bicycle was stored.
Everything felt like something that you used to do a long time ago but not anymore. Even my riding mates, Andy, GC Denis, Luca, and Seb. It’s been ages since I’ve ridden with them. Although, some of them (I won’t give names), have been absent longer than me.
The first moment of feeling at the right place, doing the right thing, was sitting on GC Denis’ wheel between Kingston bridge and Hampton Court. Suddenly I felt at home. I knew what I was doing.
Well, that was just what I thought.
How would you explain that I found myself at the front of the group? If I knew what I was doing, the real Javier cyclist would never have hit the front. Especially if there was not a sprinting line involved.
I blame running. It has screwed my RPE, I now tell myself. It makes me feel I’m going easier than I’m really going.
A coffee at the stop made things even worse. My optimism went to the roof, I was back to the front.
Luckily for me my riding mates didn’t contest any of the sprints. So despite my terrible tactics in the first one and almost crashing sprinting alone in the second, I took both.
I don’t feel like a winner though. Even after a one hour siesta my legs are fried after a ride that was supposed to be short and easy.
I clearly have no idea of what I am doing when riding anymore.
The ride in Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/16609934970
Take care of yourself
Javier Arias González
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