What to do when your feeling run down / fed up

When you say change in diet what did that include?

Cheers! Yeah I'm just feeling wrecked lately I don't over eat but don't starve myself either usually always have something decent before cycling drink plenty fluids etc etc. Sometime just feels off the last while though feel like I've been kicked around half of the time.

I had it in March but I don't think I had any lasting effects like these anyway. It just really hit me in the last week or so before that I was grand for the most part apart from the obvious drawbacks of cycling! ha. Ah even coming home today there's a strongish wind out and it was just killing me cycling uphill most of the way back. Just felt so frustrated that I had to keep getting off the bike and walking for a while. My upper legs are stiff now and I haven't had that in a long time sure I've done 100 or so km cycles a couple of times this year alone and didn't get it so this is pissing me off. I just feel like I can't do anything properly lately.

With the way my daughter sleeps some nights are better then others but on average its about 6 or so hours . I'm used to being up early every morning really.

Cheers ! Without getting into a very off topic conversation haha she has learning difficulties / disability so it effects alot of things with her. One morning she could be awake at 7 as normal next day she be up at 2am!

Yeah I was going at a fairly high pace last week in the mid twenty's so I'm sure that didn't help but in saying that for the most part I felt I was hitting everything at a level I was really happy with. I got the Luas in again this morning so ill leave the bike for the next few days see how I feel. My bike is only just over a year old and is running well have a wedding among many other things coming up next year so my money is wrapped up all over the shop ha.

I think I need to take a look at what I'm eating during the week and when I'm cycling as well as I feel I need more fuel from somewhere my body just doesn't seem to have it atm. I know myself I probably am not eating enough half of the time but its not as if I'm sitting around starving either! I know I could plan it a lot better if I wasn't in work most of the time.

Whatever about everything else I think I'm gonna have to find a better route coming home especially as I have grown to absolutely hate the current one ha. Yesterday was the final straw I gave up a few times and started walking.

The first one you mentioned I cant picture the route so ill have to look at it online never been near the Naas road on a bike wouldn't know where to start!

My current route there's a lot of long stretch's reaching lights on hills that I would love to cut out if I could. Like on a day like yesterday where you had a wind stopping you right in your tracks alone side constant red lights it was awful especially low on energy.

The route coming in isn't the worst as I'm leaving the house at 6:30am traffic isn't to bad and a lot of it is down hill. Coming home the majority of it is all up hill chasing lights there's a humpback bridge you get stuck on surrounded by cars and buses with a tiny cycle lane and there's nothing but surfaces coved in lumps bumps and cracks so by the time you finally get to Tallaght your up the wall haha. If I was doing it at half six in the morning on a day with no wind I'm sure it be much easier but I'm doing it at rush hour traffic unfortunately.

That's coming from Citywest into town right? I taught you meant coming from out of town towards Citywest. Ill have to see if there's a similar route for heading out of town.

Yeah I really appreciate all the reply's so far its been great just to vent alone. I know me self though that health stuff is complex and everyone's situation is different. I am off in the next week or so for few days and ill try getting into the GP then hopefully get a blood test that week. I haven't had one done in few years anyway.