As a general rule I do 6 days riding and 1 day off. This keeps me sane and happy. I know if this sequence gets out of sync then anger seems to permeates every aspect of my life.
I got up this morning and it was rain well pouring. I was angry about that. Putting the bags on my bike wasn’t as slick as usual and i got wet. I was angry about that. My breakfast coffee was strong and bitter, i put sugar in it, mmmmmmm nice no anger there.
The homestay hosts were so congenial, they waved me off in the 5 minutes of non rain period.
There were a few hills on my way, not particularly taxing. But the extra effort made my already raw rubbing area twinge with a stinging pain i was not happy with.
I rode through towns looking for porential coffee stops eventually settling on my favourite Milano Coffee House. I was angry it took so long.
I can ride through a whole town looking for drink stops. Every small shop looks like a potential, but there is no fridge, or they don’t have the drink i want or what looks like a mini mart turns out to be a nail bar, some places just look too dirty to want to stop at. I rode through 2 maybe 3 towns in a row, desperate for a drink but just not finding one.
I rode hard today. But the horns were so loud making me angry, mopeds riding so close making me angry, loug packs of motobikes and mopeds making me angry. No one knows or cares its all in my head. I shout at everyone and everything. 😠
Luckily I got to my hotel having completed 106kms by 2pm. I knew i was angry and i knew why 14 days straight and just over 1200kms. I am well and truly pooped.
I had a brief message conversation with a friend who suggested I check days and kms before i leave Vietnam. 440kms and 6 days. But its going to be very mountainous (1700m up) in the next 2 days riding. But i made a decision to take a day off. So its 440kms in 5 days (thats 88kms a day) but there are some slight complications with distances between hotels, but well overcome that when we get to it.
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