Have you got what it takes? Answer these 5 scenarios to find out.

Scenario 1: It’s 10.30pm on Friday night, you’re coming to the end of a boozy dinner and your mates suggest continuing. You:

a) Think “fuck it”, go big and get up at 5.30am and ride in pain for 3 hours, scoopingup some PBs due to the elevated sugar and carb level

b) Go out with them for a couple more then leave them to continue before it gets too messy and do your Saturday ride

c) Think “fuck it”, go big and lie in

Scenario 2: It’s 5.30am on a Tuesday morning, you look out the window and it’s chucking it down. You:

a) Head out anyway

b) Get up, stretch and do core work for an hour instead

c) Switch the alarm off and go back to sleep

Scenario 3: You’re on a business trip overseas for a week. You:

a) Conduct sprint repeats up the fire escape to the 30^th floor each morning

b) Take your bike as check-in and ride every morning as per your normal routine

c) Take a week off

Scenario 4: You’re on a group ride, it’s supposed to be your recovery ride when three of your buddies announce that they’re gonna smash it today. You:

a) Think “bring it on” and answer the call of the twitchy legs

b) Tell them it’s your recovery ride and stick to a tempo rhythm, letting them ride off into the distance

c) Head home alone and leave them to it

Scenario 5: It’s Friday night and you’ve had an exhausting week of work dinners, back to back appraisals and quarterly reports and have a weekend of kids’ birthdays and Ikea coming up. You:

a) Set the alarm for 4.30am to make sure you can still get 100ks in before brekkie

b) Keep the alarm at 6.30am and head out for a quick hour anyhow

c) Collapse into your bed, disconnecting all phones and any device with an alarm

 

Results:

All a)s: you’re ready

All b)s: you’re getting there

All C)s: Naaaa, don’t bother