If you have found yourself on this page
I doubt this blog is what you were expecting, but hey ho, you might
well learn something. Proper cycling blogs are on my team page (maxgearettes.blogspot.co.uk) although it has indeed been a while since one of those! The title 'winter training' was a sly tactic adopted to get you on here. And now I have you I wouldn't want to bore you with ramblings on
what training I have mustered up for the winter anyway...that's a
secret (sort of) and you'll know in any case when I unleash some
(ahem) skills in the spring. Tea is the current topic. As it should be.
Sometimes I go to work and forget to
take any Earl Grey tea bags. This is a serious problem. I'm faced
with an industrial- sized bag of two-cup builders teabags.
Jeeeez...no wonder the proportion of grump behaviour has been
steadily increasing in this shop. Can I, can I start the day with a
peppermint? Or a lemon and ginger? Gosh no, and I give my inner self
a small slap for the thought of such an atrocity. The thing is I used
to go all day every day fuelled only on builder's tea and it makes me eat so much naughtiness its beyond rediculous. But something
changed and Earl Grey is now surely the way. It might have been the bike. But I don't think Brian makes
those kinds of decisions out right.
Anyway, on these builder's tea days if you have been
a customer of Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative and encountered my wrath
I'm really sorry. I do actually care if you find the right bike and I
honestly didn't mean to glare or gnash my teeth or eat Minstrels from
my fleece pocket whilst you were trying out some bikes.
To the point of this. Earl Grey is so
tasty that it might be possible to consume, dare I say it, without
the accompanying cake that always seems to appear. I swear builders
tea makes me eat more sugar. The correlation may well not be true.
But I think, in my case, it bloody well must be. I'll be more than
satisfied with a nice cup of Earl Grey but normal tea leaves me
thinking well where is the cake?? And if I have 5 brews a day, well
you do the maths... So maybe just maybe if I take some INCREDIBLE tea
bags to work I might be able to go a day without sweet treats. And it
has come to dawn on me that it might be a good idea to reduce such
consumption from 'almost all of diet' to 'small extra on days when
riding is the main focus'.
Not sure why this has to happen. I
guess there is not much point training so hard, buying a stages power crank
(cheapest power available but SO MUCH MONEY IT HURTS), getting a
coach and sweating away in a Bikram yoga class if I'm going to spend
the rest of my time fitting as much cake as possible into my mouth.
And before you say it. No, I cannot do moderation and yes, I have no
self control if I even sniff some
cake/chocolate/haribo/tiffin/christmas biscuits from Lidl – the
one's that Murray hides from me in the workshop.
If you're still reading, and god knows
why, then it must be reinstated that the days that start well start
with an Earl Grey. FACT. But it has to be a leisurely tea moment. My
boss gets annoyed when we (shop floor staff and mechanics) get the
grump on if we don't all have time to individually shower (well you'd
hope so) and have a leisurely breakfast. I guess coming in 45 minutes
early just to encounter odorous cyclists in the brisk morning air isn't
everyone's idea of fun. Fair dos. But from now on I will be there even
earlier, starting the day the proper way. So I am relaxed, focused, a
'teaist' almost. Only things that are good for this body will be
allowed anywhere near me with the aid of tea. I hope...
Will update on the loss of cake
progress soon.
