Been lazy as well as overworking, if that is possible. Lazy in that I’ve not been able to ride.
And I’ll throw in excuses like rain, work, rain & more work. My bronchial cold lingered with lots of coughing for about 3 weeks,
with headaches every second day. A friend said I gave them the flu. (Her doctor confirmed the flu).

My last ride was exactly 2 weeks ago. Tonight, I left an hour early and did an hour’s warm-up but the other 7 guys who started were all flying too fast for me from the start and I rode the second half mostly by myself. The whole time I was thinking of ways to improve my fitness and get my former strength and speed back.

Winter weights will be starting tomorrow. Will dust off my weights and do squats etc out in the garden with the dogs to watch and encourage me.

Here comes the bride? What’s all that about? Well with bills piling high lately and money not stretching as far as it used to I’ve decided to accept a new part time job.
I’ll be performing weddings as a priest up in Tochigi starting in a week or two. Been busy memorizing the script (90% in Japanese) and trying to figure out when to say what and how. Timing of the organ music, the timing of the couple and where they should be standing and what they should be doing coinciding with what I should be saying. I’m sure I’m going to make a mess of the first 2 or 3 and probably get fired. But the money is good and I need every yen at the moment. Let’s hope I don’t get divorced from the job and nobody notices any mistakes. Amen.

And what is with Garmin switching to crappy Bing Maps from Google. These inserts don’t look half as good anymore. I’ll have to exorcise them.
Warm up:

Main:

Today Warm Up: 24.75km
Today: 27.92km
Yearly Total: 4197.47km