This past week, in my conversation with Sam Duong (see here), one of the topics he talked about was his exploration of the idea of “Just Enough”.
As this post goes out (8am UK time Sunday), I will be heading to meet Sam for a bike ride. How long will we ride? Sometimes we ride for two hours, sometimes more like four or five. What I know is that it will be “Just Enough” (and, of course, include coffee and a bacon roll). As the great Eddy Merckx said, “ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel, but ride”.
As we head towards the colder months in the UK, I am reminded of the last time I used this image, at the start of November 2020. At that time we had no idea that the UK would be locked down for almost all of the next six months, so in retrospect, I am so glad that, as I noted in the post “No Bad Weather”, I had gone ahead and ordered more winter outdoor and bike clothing. Over last winter I made full use of all of that, getting myself outside almost every day. Sometimes for hours on end of riding (and more walking as roads got icy), sometimes only for half an hour or so when weather was particularly rainy and bleak. Again, I simply got out there, “Just enough”.