Life is strange these days. Very surreal. All things evolve around cycling at the moment. Nothing else to worry about, just cycling. Did a 100km ride yesterday, took my rest today. Well, it’s not really true I don’t worry about things, I actually have a lot of tiny worries, but about the weirdest things… Like food. I am suddenly very aware of what I am eating and drinking. I never had this kind of detailed awareness about my food. And if there was any awareness, it normally didn’t go much further then: to much fat = bad. So the simple rule used to be, don’t eat to many fat things. But the last couple of days I actually started to look on the labels! :-)

I even put myself on some kind of diet until Saturday. Well, diet is a big word. I don’t need to get heavier, so I try to stay away from the fat things. Instead the focus is on carbohydrates. Pasta. It’s not based on something scientific, but I am going blind on my idea that professional cyclist eat pasta. And if they eat pasta, I eat pasta. I like pasta, but pasta for three days in a row is pushing it a bit… But well, I will manage as long as it will pay off on Saturday! :-)

Last thing to worry a little bit about are the little pains… my knees, the back of my left knee, my lower back and in general stiff muscles all over the place… again, not big things, and I guess they come naturally as my body isn’t used to this every second day exercise… *hahaha* the life of an athlete is quite hard! :-) Well… athlete… to use my name and “athlete” in one sentence is a bit to optimistic… maybe enthusiastic person that cycles is a better comparison! :-)

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