A weird thing happened out on my bike today.

[LosingFocus]

Went out at lunch today for a quick blast within an hour, my normal lunch routine. I changed my route slightly as it's the school holidays and there is a stretch of A road I wanted to try. So I go out, do this new bit as fast as I can, really working my legs into the headwind. Now, I pull off the A road and start home and Im knackered. I took out 750ml of squash with me, but I had finished nearly all that by about mile 5. I popped my helmet off to get some air on my head along a quiet back road... and the next thing I know, Im home - but I dont remember getting there. From what I can tell, there is about 3 miles or so that I just dont remember cycling. My helmet was back on too.

Have I drifted off awake and gone into autopilot?

I've had a moderately busy weekend. A wedding reception on Friday night, host and cooked a massive family BBQ on Saturday and spring cleaned the house of clutter on Sunday. The weekend involved a fair amount of booze and lots of 'bad' foods, plus I havent been sleeping well. I ate 2 slices of toast and 2 coffees for breakfast but nothing else before riding out.

Pretty annoyed and slightly freaked out.

 

[Riding in Circles]

Yep autopilot, I do it if I am going long distance in the rain, I have managed more than 40 miles on autopilot before in pelting rain.

 

[ohnovino]

I've done about 5 miles on autopilot once, while under-fueled on a hard ride.

The really annoying thing is that it was through an area where I always get lost, and this appears to have been the one and only time I actually went the right way!

 

[funnymummy]

I've been heading to somewhere from somewhere & it has involved passing my house, I've often found myself walking up my path & wondered WTF!!??!!

 

[LosingFocus]

Ah phew, I didnt have an odd kind of blackout then.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Ah phew, I didnt have an odd kind of blackout then.

if you did, you'd probably have fallen off. i do it in the car all the time, mostly dull boring motorway drives, started happening when i was about 30 yrs old. sign of my youth passing away i was told, by all my older mates.

 

[Hont]

+1. I often look at the route downloaded from my GPS and can't remember doing half of it.

 

[Melonfish]

you lot are really scary...
the only time i've been sketchy on details is after the sedative they gave me for my gastroscopy. even then i remember waking up and asking for water and getting home (my old man remembers none of that)

but then i'm the type of person that remembers everything about a night out regardless of how much i drink.. finding i've arrived somewhere without realising it.. wow i just couldn't imagine that.

 

[NeilEB]

i've done that before in the car, particularly on long motorway drives.

"What? HOw am I at junction 4 already, I'm sure I just passed junction 15" etc

Put it down to tiredness combined with doing an activity that is common and familiar to you.