Don’t ‘Bonk’!
Why To Treat Lockdown 3.0 Like It Will Never End
“Oh my God, is it still January?”
I was just having this conversation last week with a colleague. Anyone else feeling it? That feeling of “I have had ENOUGH of this”
In Europe lockdown 3.0 has been the lockdown-when-everyone’s-sick-of-lockdowns.
I’m finding that people are so fatigued by the whole thing they have stopped some of the ‘self-care’ activities they were doing in previous lockdowns. They’ve dumped the online fitness classes, they’ve declined all the Zoom quizzes, they’re giving up on that new Netflix boxed*-set. They have decided just to hunker down and push on to the (vaccinated) end.
But this is exactly the time to really up the ante. To re-focus on looking after ourselves.
In professional cycling, the ‘bonk’ is the feeling when your body suddenly runs out of glycogen — stored energy. It has become part of sporting lore. Very often professionals ‘bonk’ at the end of a race: they see there’s only 10km to go and think: “Oh I’ll be fine” and ride straight into trouble. British Cycling lists it as a key nutrition mistake.
It cost Cadel Evans the Maglia Rosa (pink jersey) in the 2002 Giro d’Italia. He allegedly bonked on stage 17 on the final climb up Mt. Etna, slipping from…
