Roadman, today we're gonna talk about how sometimes it's okay if you…
Roadman, today we're gonna talk about how sometimes it's okay if you leave the house without your german. Let's cue that in troll music. The big question is this. How do we use cycling as a tool to improve our health, our happiness and our long-term? That is the question and this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Walsh and welcome to the Roadman Podcast. Hello you beautiful roadman and welcome back to another roadman short farm podcast roadman bites happy Monday everybody how was your weekend did you get out riding what sort of riding did you do hit me up in the DM it's a nice way to start the week feeling the love from all you guys I'm gonna start loosely teaming the day is so Monday I like a little bit of of alliteration. So I'm going to go with a Motivation on Monday, mainly because I had a Motivation on Roy yesterday, which I really want to share with you today. Before I jump in and tell you all about that, I want to remind you as to start of the week. And I'm a big fan of just eating that frog doing the difficult task first. Head on over to patreon.com forward slash Anthony underscore Walsh. That's where you can make a small little contribution this podcast helps fund the podcast, helps it roll and helps it and makes it sure that we have an episode tomorrow, the day after, the day after. You know the drill if you're a regular listener, we're five days a week on the roadman podcast. Okay, I want to talk to you about a ride I done yesterday. I left my house on Sunday morning and I rode on Saturday and in my haste, I didn't wear a sun cream on Saturday and I got absolutely scorched. It's rare here in Ireland that we get a scorcher a day like that and I haven't been riding in the sun that much so I got such a scorcher on my neck and my arms. I was feeling absolutely miserable all Saturday evening, definitely didn't drink enough water, just felt borderline so unstruct. Slept absolutely terrible as a result, woke up a bunch of times during the noise. The next morning when the alarm finally went off, I'd such a pounding headache, a barely see out your eyes. Didn't want to get into the kit, I'm going to be honest with you and I thought you know what, I'm just going to get into the case but I'm not going training, I'm just going to get into the case, that's the only commitment I'm making right now when I talk, okay, I'm going to put my helmet on but I'm still not committing to going training. Damn what I did was off to getting out the door, I was like okay, I'm going as far as the coast road which is like a kilometer away, less.
Then I'm turning home but I'm not going trying and I'm going to text…
And then I'm turning home but I'm not going trying and I'm going to text my training buddy Sean I'm saying look I'm not going to make it and I made these small and moist onto myself until eventually I was riding in through the city I still feel terrible legs are feeling horrible and I kind of shaking it out I rode forty five minutes to meet my training partner Sean McKenna across the city and then we just started riding and we started riding and honestly there was no talk of how far are we riding today what's the the roof, what session do you have? We just started roiding and intuitively, John's a lot of trying with a lot through the years, and intuitively we knew that we'll keep it single for a while, where we'll have to, we'll double breast in through the city streets, where it's possible, and then the pace was pretty gentle. And then as he got out into the mountainous country roads, there's a general opening of the pace, but there's no conversation about this. It's just an intuitive opening of the pace and an easing of the pace. And we just have no plan. And then I fast forward kind of 10, 15 minutes later. And we're kind of. Soid by so is, you know, down flowy, the sense taken corner. Soid by so it chatting. And honestly, I was 45 minutes across the city to meet him. And then probably another half an hour later. And I forgot about all those thoughts racing in my head. I forgot about the sore head, the sore legs, the poor sleep. And the cycle and just kind of completely absorbed me. And I had no other thoughts only the road in front of me, looking around at the beautiful scenery. And the conversation just flowed all day, just chatting about absolute nonsense, no structure to the chats, just easy conversation flowed as we wrote, error after error after error and fast forward five hours later I'm rolling back through the city I'm physically absolutely cooked from a difficult five-hour ride with a lot of climbing in it But mentally I felt absolutely Recharged I felt like I had a full night sleep I felt you know all that scatter and all the problems I had in my head I felt like I walked them all out I felt like I had a plan for the week. I felt like I knew what podcast topic so I was going to talk about all week I felt I knew exactly what training plans I was going to give each client and I just worked so many things out and That's what the boy he is for me a lot of the time I head out the door and I'm reluctant a lot of the time and I'm thinking I'm too busy for this and it reminds me Dalalam a quote and he said, today is the busiest day of the year, I'll meditate twice as long.
Bike is that for me, it's a way to resolve those problems, it's a way…
And the bike is that for me, it's a way to resolve those problems, it's a way to give me that inner peace and it's a way to increase my productivity so much. And what I've done, because if anyone's a regular listener to the podcast, you'll know I had a crash and I broke my race bike last weekend, so I've no bike at the moment. So I had to cobble together and I'll try an in bike. So that was was another reason that I wasn't feeling brilliant positions, probably not brilliant still even though I've tweaked around with it and I had no Wahoo mount on the training bike so I just didn't bring a computer with me. And you know what, sometimes it's okay to leave the garment at home. Sometimes it's okay to leave the garment in the back pocket and not stare at the numbers. It's okay to roy it and to just get out of your own head and give you that mental escape and it's one of the big reasons that I ride the bike. I wanted to share that which hopefully it's as not inspirational, but it just gives you, we spoke a while ago about the Foy, Hoidy Roger bike. And it's not one big read, it's a podcast working on back listening to, but that's the main reason I ride my bike, but I have a bunch of little reasons, and that mental clarity, the focus, the getting out of my own head, recharge, and it's such a big part of riding my bike, and it's such a thing unique to us as cyclists. So I hope you enjoyed this podcast. I hope you have an amazing week, Roadman. I'm gonna chat to you again tomorrow. And don't forget to check out the Roadman Resources section. This is the section where I'm starting to list everything I'm using. One thing I did use this morning and I just added it into the Roadman Resources. It's called this amp human. Amp plus human I think it's called. Have a look on the Roadman Resources. It's something like that. What it is, is a boy carb sold a cream that you rub on your legs and it buffers lactate. Boy carb is a lactate inhibitor so it stops lactate being produced. So this is a cream that you rub straight into your muscles before a training road, before a race. It's absolutely class. I listed it on the roadman resources. I've been using it since November since I got back riding the bike. Can't speak highly enough to it. I'm going to flick it into roadman resources.com and you can check it out there. you know what folks I'm gonna chat to you all tomorrow enjoy your day