Accidental sleep in

Turns out that I forgot to turn on my alarm last night, which is something I very rarely do. Still I managed to get out the door okay. I woke up an hour late and managed to get on the bike only half an hour late, so not all was lost. I managed to scoff down breakfast and get on the bike in about half the time it would usually take me. It is amazing what a little panic can do. I also manged to get into work at a reasonable time, which is also a good thing.


When I woke up I had that usual initial confusion that you get when you sleep through an alarm. 'Snort, Wha is goin on', that sort of thing. I pretty quickly figured out what had happened. You know when you sleep through an alarm you have to make that call as to whether there is enough time to get up and get on with it, or whether you just stay in bed. When I woke up the time was such that it was borderline whether it was too late to get the ride done, or whether I might as well stay in bed. Veeeery tempting. I figured that if I broke all previous records with regards to getting ready, the morning might still work. In the end that is more or less how it went.

Hill repeats on the bike this morning. So a nice little trip to King's Park. It was certainly much quieter this morning, I am guessing it is because Busselton 70.3 was on the weekend. I imagine there are a bunch of triathletes taking a well earned rest now. The hills still hurt though, turns out whether there are other people to witness that pain or not makes very little difference to the actual amount of pain. In fact this morning there was a head wind on the uphill leg, which I always think is a bit unfair. I guess from the wind and the hill's perspective though they aren't forcing me to be there, they are just going about their normal morning business. If I don't like it, I could always go ride somewhere else.

I noticed on the ride today that one of my bottle cages is broken. I guess one to many rides over rough roads. It still holds the bottle, but only just. Luckily, spare bottle cages is something that I have in abundance.

Everyone at home is pretty sniffly at the moment, which I think is because of the recent cool change we have had in Perth. I have this constant concern that I might be getting ill. I hate that feeling. With the cooler weather and the increased training load I feel like I am balanced on a bit of a knife edge at the moment.  I am trying to be extra careful in terms of resting, hygiene etc. At least my sleep in this morning should have helped.