What makes a good cycle day?

3 hours of sleep
Up at 05:30
10°C in the morning
And best of all, two punctures in the first 20 minutes. 3 for the day...

Perfect ingredients for a crappy cycle day, don't you say?

No doubt the though of calling it quits crossed my mind (numerous times).
You can't control what happens to you, but you can control how you react to the things that happen to you.

No jokes, I lost most of my fitness when I was recovering for a month...

And cycling with a group of friends today was manageable at the start, but I was dead at the end. I won't say this was a hard climb, but with my level of fitness, trying to cycle with my friends, this was a challenge.

Good thing I rather chose to complete the ride, because this was one of the most eventful ones I've had in a very long time! Constant banter, stuffing newspaper under our shirts to keep warm, amazing views, good conversations, fighting over who should break the headwind, dicing each other on all the uphills, cycling on the other side of the road to avoid baboons, freezing your chops off at every downhill. And also dicing a other group of cyclists

Now those are memories for making a ride that you'll remember for a long time!