Bike Challenge Day 1

A complete failure.

Yeah, I didn't do it today. This is what happens when you attempt to rely on your decision-making abilities and propensity for follow-through at 6:30 in the morning. If you are me, they are basically non-existent. My laziness in the morning cannot be over-emphasized. Morning Juli is a complete sack of potatoes who follows the path of absolute least resistance and this must be used in order to get her to do what you want. (Why am I talking about myself in the third person? This is weird).

Okay, this is how it needs to go down if I'm going to be successful: 

Step 1: Pack everything up the night before. If my stuff is all organized in such a way that it would take effort to take it out of my cycling backpack and return it to my regular briefcase, then I will bike simply so that I don't have to switch bags. I realize that the effort it takes to change backpacks does not compare to the effort of biking 10 ten miles but somehow my morning brain doesn't get that and so I need to harness that to my advantage.

Step 2: Have cycling clothes laid out. If the only thing I need to do is drag myself from the bed to my bureau where the clothes are already portioned out then I am more than happy to don said items. Anything that doesn't require brain work is what I will be drawn to. Bonus points since I get to put on something warm and stretchy and colorful (three of my favorite things!).

Step 3: Just fucking do it. Just. Fucking. Do it. Yeah, but what about-? Noooo. No. You get on that thing and you pedal- your readers are depending on you! Yes, but for what? I don't know! I don't know what they want! I don't know what they need! But apparently this morning they are getting and internal debate I'm having with myself. So there you are. Life, uh, finds a way.