Thursday, 19 August 2010

Life: Take Three

I've written and deleted this post twice already as I find myself rambling inanely about rubbish so, I'll ramble inanely about rubbish but keep it short.

Training in Sheffield/living at home is not a good place for me to be mentally. I have no idea way, perhaps the lack of training partners, perhaps I regress back to a time when I was a fat kid who ate everything, who knows, but as I write I find myself sitting on the back end of 7 days of crappy training. The motivation I found in France and Germany a distant memory. For God's Sake, I only have 10 days until the end of the season but, just like April and May, I find myself not caring.

Long story short I was not cut out to be a full time athlete and I take my hat of to those who have the mental discipline to treat this like a job. It's something I cannot do. I will move back down to London next month and start work in October and, to be honest, I cannot wait. The structure of having a job gives my life outside work structure, a routine that I crave but for some reason cannot impose on myself. I'm sure psychologists could have a field day on this but it just seems to be the way my mind works.

I am looking forward to training at 6am again and having to hit the turbo at 8 in the evening. I am excited over the prospect of looking forward to Friday not because I can get drunk, but because it's so close to Saturday morning and Saturday morning means a long bike ride.

This is my third attempt at "life" post university, and I'm only 24. Teaching didn't work out, neither did sport, here's hoping the third time's the charm...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What about that stalled attempt as gigolo to the elderly and infirm? Denying it doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Look forward to getting out on some rides with you when this bones stress settles down.

John Franklin said...

Please, the only reason I didn't mention that was because it was an undeniable success. Only reason I stopped was I was so good the monopolies commission shut me down.

Sorry to hear about the SF, down beginning of September so give me a buzz whenever.