This bike riding addiction is becoming a bit disturbing. For me, at least. After going riding nearly everyday over the holidays, on Monday I was more bummed out about not being able to go on a ride than coming into the hellish workload I had waiting for me at the office. As many of us have repeated ad nauseum, "I'd rather be riding."
But I've been whacked with an annoying chest cold over the past few days, so that's sidelined me even if I didn't have to work. But all I can think about is, "Dude, if I didn't have this chest full of mucus and crap and this annoying cough, I'd kill to go riding for a bit today." Yesterday, I felt so crap that I actually had to take off from work. Saw the doctor and all, and rather than work on feeling better, I used my 'day off' to tinker with the bike. Can't ride, but I can at least spend time with bikes! I'm out of my mind, I think. Yesterday, I spent a good 15 minutes pulling off the little rubber 'spines' off all my tires. Just so I could have something to tinker with.
Today, I'm not feeling any better, but work needed to get done, so I decided to come into the office. Weather was well beyond crap - rain, sleet and snow. Yet, as I stood on the train platform, all I could think about was, "Dude, if I didn't have this chest cold or have to go into work, I'd kill to go riding for a bit today." I'm saying this as I practically slip off the slush on the platforms onto the tracks. I'm starting to feel like I'm a bit sick in the head now.
When I look up the weather forecast now, all I'm concerned with is weather conditions on Saturdays and Sundays. Those are the only two days out of the week I get to ride. Weekdays are right out. I'm happy as a pig in sh!t is I see clear forecasts for the weekend, yet I'm a miserable bastard if I see rain and snow and crap for the weekend.
This is the curse I now have to deal with. A year ago, I was never like this. But since I got my first bike in April or May of last year, this is insanity that goes on in my head. It's sad, it's pathetic, it's an obsession of sorts, and like I said, a bloody curse.
I'm not sure why I even wrote this post. Maybe I'm looking to see if I'm the only headcase around here. Maybe... oh, I dunno.
But I've been whacked with an annoying chest cold over the past few days, so that's sidelined me even if I didn't have to work. But all I can think about is, "Dude, if I didn't have this chest full of mucus and crap and this annoying cough, I'd kill to go riding for a bit today." Yesterday, I felt so crap that I actually had to take off from work. Saw the doctor and all, and rather than work on feeling better, I used my 'day off' to tinker with the bike. Can't ride, but I can at least spend time with bikes! I'm out of my mind, I think. Yesterday, I spent a good 15 minutes pulling off the little rubber 'spines' off all my tires. Just so I could have something to tinker with.
Today, I'm not feeling any better, but work needed to get done, so I decided to come into the office. Weather was well beyond crap - rain, sleet and snow. Yet, as I stood on the train platform, all I could think about was, "Dude, if I didn't have this chest cold or have to go into work, I'd kill to go riding for a bit today." I'm saying this as I practically slip off the slush on the platforms onto the tracks. I'm starting to feel like I'm a bit sick in the head now.
When I look up the weather forecast now, all I'm concerned with is weather conditions on Saturdays and Sundays. Those are the only two days out of the week I get to ride. Weekdays are right out. I'm happy as a pig in sh!t is I see clear forecasts for the weekend, yet I'm a miserable bastard if I see rain and snow and crap for the weekend.
This is the curse I now have to deal with. A year ago, I was never like this. But since I got my first bike in April or May of last year, this is insanity that goes on in my head. It's sad, it's pathetic, it's an obsession of sorts, and like I said, a bloody curse.
I'm not sure why I even wrote this post. Maybe I'm looking to see if I'm the only headcase around here. Maybe... oh, I dunno.