Not to Plan

Sometimes life just doesn't go to plan, no matter how hard you try.

Yesterday I wrote about how tired I was and how keen I was to get to bed. After writing that things went along more or less as intended and I got to bed at a reasonable hour.

However, not long after falling into blissful slumber I was woken up by our cat who seems to take a rather perverse pleasure in being the most annoying creature on God's Good Earth. Once he had woken me up I had real trouble falling asleep again. You know how it goes, you are probably dozing a bit here and there, but to your brain it feels like you have been staring at the ceiling for the last two hours, thinking increasingly about how much you really need this sleep and how tired you are going to be, which of course just makes it harder to get to sleep.

Once I did fall asleep though, wow, sleep of the dead.

With a terrible night's sleep under my belt I was pretty sure I was going to feel exhausted in the morning and if I am honest I didn't feel spectacular. In fact it was the closest I have gotten in a long time to simply staying in bed. I got myself out of bed though and on to the Kickr for my third day of fighting up hill against lacking motivation.

The Kickr session was fine once I was going. With a bit of coffee and a bit of blood flow the body was up to the task. It also helped that the session was a fairly straight forward one, not requiring a whole lot of physical or mental effort. A bit of a recovery ride really. As expected it was freezing cold this morning and so I am not sure I am particularly upset about being on the Kickr. Although by all accounts whilst it was freezing it was also gloriously perfect for riding in most other ways. Still I am not going to lose sleep (more of it) over the fact that I was indoors, I was happy to be toasty warm.

I have definitely been feeling the lack of sleep for the rest of today though, I have been far from my tip top perky self, but I have had enough to mosey on through, get my strength work done etc. I have successfully managed to refrain from tiredness induced murder (so far) which I count as a win for all. Sleep will be high on my list of priorities for this evening though.

I guess the frustrating thing about it all is that the tiredness is self inflicted. Yes there was some good training over the weekend, and we had a nice family weekend away, but the tiredness is mainly related to a lack of quality sleep, rather than the weariness that comes from working hard. It is frustrating because it is largely unnecessary and it effects the quality of the rest of my training. Still so far no great harm done, plenty of opportunity to get a good night's sleep tonight and start off tomorrow on more of an even keel.

I will need my sleep because tomorrow is the weekly Swim Smooth Red Mist session, which is always challenging. Making it just a little more challenging this week is the fact that tomorrow morning is forecast to be 3 degrees.

Lovely morning for a swim.