Over the last few days I didn’t think I was going to make it.
Cold and wind and lack of motivation kept me off the bike more than was planned for and I stayed home yesterday psyching myself up for today. Even went to the extreme motivating tactic of shaving my legs last night to make sure I was in the right frame of mind.

Looking at the weather report it was going to be coldest at 6a.m and that meant I had another excuse to sleep in a bit for it to warm up a bit.
Left home around 7:15 and headed north up to Sekiyado where one of my team mates glided by me at a faster pace. He had already been on the road for at least 30km but I was not going to go too hard too fast so let him slide away out of site into the distance.
On the return leg I was hoping to get to Shinzakaya for the start of our usual Sunday morning sprint but I was about 15 minutes too late at that point and continued on to the finish line where they were all chatting away as usual over hot chocolates. After about 20 minutes of chatting I got back on and continued to Tokyo Bay.
My thighs were screaming at me by this stage for some breakfast and with 80km on an empty stomach I agreed. My thighs and I found a Royal Host restaurant near Kasai park where we could tuck in and get warm and recovered.
I just had a glass of water but my thighs shared a Clubhouse sandwich, 2 hot chocolates, 2 colas and a double espresso with sugar…

After lunch I calculated I had to do at least 2 laps of Disneyland before I could even consider coming home.
My thighs had energy to burn and we got home in good time, strong as ever.

Wasn’t so hard after all.

Today’s mileage: 140.06 kmkm
Yearly total: 1004.47km
Daily average: 32.402258064516129032258064516129km
Daily average goal: 33.71km