Astute readers will have noticed a certain dearth of activity on here recently.
Oh do stop rolling your eyes. This isn’t one of those pointless “I promise to blog moar!” posts, I promise. It’s not even another “I quit!”. I’ve just been stupidly busy with a new job, that’s all, and I kinda lost both my blogging and cycling mojo for a while there.
Motivation was severely lacking due to being tired and busy and generally too pissed off to be bothered getting up at 7am on a Sunday to cycle for four hours in the rain and wind (thank you, Northern Ireland summers), even if the rainy miles do count for double. So I haven’t really done as much cycling to write about as I have done in previous summers.
However, taking sort-of a break from cycling myself, then catching the last two weeks of Le Tour (First week? File under “busy” and – oddly enough – “football”) , seems to have done the trick and I’ve rediscovered some two wheeled mojo-vation. I’ve been getting out in the early mornings and lunchtimes during the week for an hour or two, rather than half of Sunday, which seems to be working better with my new work patterns, and starting to love it again. I can feel the autumn starting, and I’m not looking forward to stopping the early morning rides.
Having now fixed the cycling motivation problem, there are a couple of other things that require my attention. It takes too much time to maintain the blog software, which is frustrating but entirely my own doing due to how I’ve set it up, and then there’s content. I’m not sure what I have or want to put here any more, or how much time I have to do it.
I wrote a while ago that Rain Miles needs to change. This is now. I need to figure out how this site moves forward, or else it won’t.
Thanks for staying tuned.
My blog is very poorly set up, because basically I’m thick when it comes using software, or maybe at that sad age where if it fails to work first time I lose my temper, my sons, all grown up will testify to that effect, I have trouble with the TV remote etc.. But I hear what you say, life just gets in the way sometimes of us doing what we love to do, and we get too shagged out. Glad you’re back. Cheers.
Thanks welsh :) My trouble with software is the opposite; I’m a software engineer by trade and I manage this site like a professional work project, which adds a lot of overhead that’s probably not justified for a personal blog!