Is not a Maxwell House morning

You’ve all seen those commercials with Maxwell House coffee.. “the best part of waking up is Maxwell House…bla bla bla”. The commercial has some guy or gal smelling their coffee as they have their morning carafe to jump start their day, and body. The look on their face is absolute elation.

Now think of the complete opposite, some guy (or gal) getting up, wiping the sleep from their eyes and heading out into the day without a cup’a joe. For the first few days they struggle through the day wandering here to there in a daze. Suffering from a caffeine withdrawal headache the size of Mt Everest and the sudden and uncontrollable urge to stomp on things. It’s an ugly ugly thought isn’t it.

Ya, well the later is starting to be me, and likely 43 other SNKCR riders. You see as part of getting the legs ready to peddle across the country we also need to start weening ourselves off the java. Coaches orders.

Now I’m skeptical of this fact, primarily because I’m in withdrawal, but caffeine supposedly has this ability to over stimulate the adrenal glands and that and multi-day distance cycling is supposedly bad.

I started the weening process Monday and so far I feel like someone drilled a few extra holes in my head.

At least on the bright side pizza now has company on the most wanted but unattainable list.