Night train

I nearly didn't go to RPM today.  In fact I wasn't going to until I received an email about 11am from the Karate LayD asking me if I was going to the 12.30.  I oscillated and then wrote back saying I was.  Karate LayD wrote back and said she'd be there but she would be taking it easy (becasue she's been doing other training).  I wrote back and said so would I - be taking it easy.

Last night I went for a few drinks after work, and then when I got home I had a few more.  This is something I used to do often.  I hardly ever do it these days.  I fact I haven't done this since I've been going to RPM, and I haven't actually had a drink for about 4-5 months.  It was a crazy thing to do on a "school night" and so close to "end of term" re my contract.  I guess its a sign that I'm slightly more stressed than I would like to concede.  I know the way to manage this stress is to accelerate my exercise programme not sabotage it.   So then this morning I was running late, and with the late night before sabotaged the "diet" by having two crappy New World pan au chocolait - which in the scheme of the pan au chocolait world are like eating McDonalds.   So, I wasn't feeling that great this morning.

It was good Karate LayD emailed me, becasue it meant I actually went to class.  T was also in class.  So when T asked me if my shoulders and legs were sore from the weekend ride, I could honestly say they weren't.  Well, not in relation to my head today.

I did intend to take the session easy but the PT played a couple of songs I "quite like" as opposed to being favourites.  These being "Californian Dreamin"(although I think the LM edit cuts out some best lines) as a number 4, and Night Train as it can only be a number 7.  I quite like Night Train - because it simulates train noises pretty well.   I think I like the train noises because I know them well from having lived near railway line with heaps of freight trains as a child, and where I live now, I can hear the trains when they pass.  Plus I spend a lot of time on trains travelling, so know the sounds well.  Its a pretty repetitive track actually, but I guess that's why it works.

So anyway, a little bit of slippage on the road, nothing major.  Its a bit of a warning to myself that there is still a default mode I can so easily slip into.  The old habits are still more well rehearsed and known than the new, thats all.  I just need to get back on the bike and reverse this pattern.