Day 6 – The fuckup day

Do you sometimes have those days when nothing seems to work? Well I had this day today.

I woke up at 4 AM with a headache, took some pill, but couldn’t sleep till 6 AM. Then I took another pill for headache and could finaly get a bit of rest. The breakfast was great, but I could eat just a bit of bread and a cup of coffee. Unsure, if I could continue today, I went back to my room. I decided that it doesn’t matter, if I suffer in bed or on bike. So I dressed up and started to paddle again.

Shortly after I received a message that my website stanontheroad.drbalek.de is down. This happened because I set a limit for hosting spending. My cheeky hosting provider started to charge me much more and this led to reaching my spending limit and provider stopping the website.

Next, it started to rain. I didn’t mind it for first couple of hours, but once my shoes got all wet I was not terribly excited about it. Out of 6 hours I spent in saddle, at least 4 hours it was raining. The tempratures dropped rapidly to around 12 degrees of celsius.

When it seemed that it cannot get worse. I realized that I’m not coming toward my final destination. Unfortunatelly as tiny droplets of water fell on the digitizer of my smartphone, they added a new waypoint to my track. Suddenly the navigation started to take me to another distant location. There was no chance for me to notice it. The whole detour cost me extra 3 larger hills, 25 kilometers and 1 hour 30 minutes.

Later I realized that according to weather forcasts there is 100% probability of rain during next few days.

Eventually, everything improved. I got rid of my headache, I got warm in the shower, I migrated the website to another provider with predictable payment structure.

I don’t worry about coming rainy days, since there is nothing I can do about it.

Furthermore I have reunited with my brother and his family. We have spent a quality time together. He will ride a bike with me to Prague tomorrow. There are only couple of kilometers left.

I think I managed negative external events quite well and I wouldn’t make it next time any other way.

Greetings from rainy Prag(West) and see you tomorrow.