I was going to ride today, but...

After walking a coupe of miles with my friend yesterday morning, my heating head, headache, and stiffness of my neck and shoulder got really worse.
The continuous hot days really made me tired.  He doesn't have any headache but he has been tired too.

Today my head has been pounding with sharp pain since this morning again; I had nothing to do just ate a little and slept.

I might have caught a cold, in this hot weather??!!  Anyway it is very uncomfortable.

Maybe I did too many activities, I'm not sure...

Concentration before bed

Maybe because the next morning's bicycling image got strongly into my brain, I woke up more than an hour before the time I planned and just couldn't go back to sleep any more.

So I decided to bake coffee cake which is our favorite, but I haven't baked for a long time, because that is a little too much work.  So I changed to an easier way to bake the cake.   

Because of the smell from baking or noise of the stand mixer, he got up quicker than usual.  But he found it was drizzling quite a bit, so we waited for a while.  Meanwhile the cake was baked.

It was a chilly morning, but we dressed thicker than usual and went biking without eating the cake, just a glass of tomato juice. 

The air was too full of moisture;  I had a hard time to breath.  

I carefully rode without bending neck too much and stretching my neck from time to time, and tried not to grip the handle too tightly.  That is all my way of preventing pain in neck, shoulder and small back.

And after riding I did stretch for 30 min. which seemed to work very well; not too much stiffness and pain in my legs which I was always suffering.  I should repeat before going to bed.

Oh, my! We ate that much in a day all by ourselves!??

In spite of yesterday's nap..

I slept as if dead until this morning so it was late to ride and come back.  Because I had a commitment this morning.
And by afternoon I was sleepy again, the hot temperature made me.  Somehow I'm very tired today.  Wonder if I got sick, no, don't think so.

Should go to bed early,  because I will ride in the morning. 😣

My friend brought this music to play together today.  I liked the simple and calm sounds.

La Foi  by Georg Goltermann

After all we need time more than speed.

And we need more time for engine warm up.
So we decided to avoid any heated up day time riding.  We have to get up early as regular people, so we can ride in cool and fresh air in the morning.
And we try to remember to ride very casually while chatting with each other for a while longer than before.  And gradually speed up, just once sprint for a short distance, and go back to our comfortable speed zone.

I still can't ride long enough to reach one hour riding, but I'm getting close to it.  

After one day off yesterday, we slept for 9 hours accidentally, we felt so good.  We enjoyed riding for a while, but it was a late start today, and the temperature went up soon.  We gave up and came back.  If we started earlier as usual, we might have ridden for 8 or even 9 miles.

OK. next time.

 

Finally no more...

Whole body got aches, have no idea why?  Anyway we couldn't keep up any more, so we just enjoyed seeing the flowers and vegetables in our garden this morning.  And had a deep and long afternoon nap unexpectedly.  I must have been tired so much.

When I checked the record of my bicycling, I have ridden for 8 days everyday since the 4th of August.  I didn't push myself too hard, so I thought that I could do it as daily routine.  But my body said, nooooo..  ???

No other way to live without listening to our own body.  But even after having a nap I still feel tired.  I feel old suddenly.

Well, let's have something to drink, and I will see what I can do next.

Slept too much ...

Somehow I couldn't get up usual time in the morning.  I missed to walk with my friend 😞and while I was solo walking, the app didn't work today.😒

We rode bicycles in the late afternoon. Because the temperature was hot😓, then the strong wind was blowing against us, it was a very uncomfortable ride😵.  In addition my cyclometer was not working after all.

We need to get up early morning tomorrow. 😠

Wish I can continue...

We excused ourselves for two days riding because of the hot weather, I got really ashamed of myself.  I started early morning bicycling yesterday, accompanying with rising sun light.  That was extremely comfortable.  The air was not hot yet, and the road was almost empty.

And making salad in the morning, and eating for lunch and dinner cooled off our body.

Today I got up an hour later than yesterday, but it was still comfortable to ride in the morning. 

Some reason the body wouldn't get as tired as later time riding which is much hotter.  Because we decided to ride solo with each one's comfortable speed, maybe?

I should go to bed soon to continue this good ride.