SOLO Ukraine – UK On a Bicycle | Day 6. I CANT DO THIS ANYMORE.

Today was rough. No sugarcoating it.
My Garmin kept failing, my knee was in serious pain, I was sunburned and freezing at the same time… and then the rain hit. Mentally and physically, I just couldn’t push through it.

I gave up today. I’m disappointed in myself. But this is the reality of a solo ride like this , it’s not always inspiring or cinematic. Sometimes, it just breaks you.

This is Day 6 of my 8000KM ride from Kyiv to London. And it humbled me.

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So, it is day six of cycling from Kev to London, and I am having nothing but problems with this. Like, I’m sure I’m sure it’s not Garmin. I’m sure it’s the the device that I’ve got, but dude, nothing but problems. And I’m getting wound up now, dude. I’ve got terrible sunburn on my back. It’s pissing with rain and this stupid little computer is just not doing what it’s supposed to do. It’s not. I’m getting so frustrated. So, it is day six of cycling from Kev to London. And to be honest, day five was a total write off. So, it’s calculating again. Let’s hope this time it does it. Yeah, day five yesterday was a total write off. Bro, when we were in the pool, we got I got crazy sunburn. I didn’t even realize it was that hot, but I got some wicked sunburn and it was just it was a write off. I went to a hotel. I got some like special cream for my body and um okay, it seems to be working, but it keeps saying lost satellite. Let’s try it. See what happens. Yeah, dude. Man, my back my shoulders are in so much pain. It’s unreal, man. I I don’t remember having sunburn like this bad before. On my back, on my chest. Okay, I think it’s working. Okay, I think we’re in luck now. Honestly, bro, I’ve been I’ve been sitting there for like 30 minutes just in the rain waiting for this thing to start working and then as soon as I make a video, it starts working. Oh, man. It is horrible weather today. It’s cold. It’s raining. It is not pleasant. And every bit of me wanted to just stay in the hotel one more night, but I know I can’t keep staying in the hotel even though I really wanted to. Oh man, my my the sunburnt on my back and my shoulders. And I’ve got a backpack on as well, which is like very uncomfortable. But we’re moving. Satnav’s working, thank goodness. And it’s pretty damn cold today, actually. Pretty cold. I tried to choose a more direct route, but I couldn’t. I don’t know why, but this this uh this app that I got, Kimoot, it just takes you on like the craziest routes and it’s all like just oh mate, I am not feeling it today. That’s all I’m going to say. I’m not feeling it today. And I saw the pictures of the route. Oh mate, it looks horrible. It’s all like stones and rocks. Do you know what I’m thinking? I might go back to the hotel, boys. I know that’s kind of a thing to do. My back, bro. My back, my knee. I’m in bits. And I’ve just realized that this jacket is not even waterproof. This It’s supposed to be waterproof, bro. And my phone My phone is basically dead, bro. I used like 25% battery on my phone from 100% trying to get these maps working. And even this satnav, the battery is like uh at around 80% as well. I might throw the towel in. I’ve got editing to do anyway. Yeah. Day six is a write off, boys. I can’t be asked for this. I feel sick. Anyway, I think I’ve got sick from like a sunburn, like upset stomach and stuff. Not sure. Like, maybe not. Maybe it’s cuz of all the vodka, but I don’t know. I haven’t slept properly either. Like, I can’t sleep at night cuz of the sunburn. Not complaining, just explaining. Not complaining, just explaining. Well, I’m kind of complaining a little bit. Yeah, I’m going to call it a day. Day six. I know I’m going to feel like I’ve let myself down on this one, but um mate, I’m just a bit angry. I think I’m angry. I’m cold. I’m wet. And there’s no like emergency for me to like be moving right now. I know I’m going to feel let down about this, but I’m making the decision to go get a hotel. It’s only cheap hotel anyway. It’s like $15 $15 $15 $20 I think. So day six is a failure. Small failure, but we’ll get it tomorrow. I’m going to go and I’m going to figure out how to use a set properly cuz maybe it’s a user error. Maybe it’s an error on my my end. But dude, it’s just it just I I don’t understand why it’s this hard. And like I know Garmin are like industry leaders in like satellite navigation stuff, you know. So maybe maybe it’s a user error like me an error on my half. Maybe it’s an error on like the device. I just got a bad one. Either way, it’s uh it’s doing my head in. And I’m just tired, dude. My knee Oh, dude. My knee is my knee is in so much pain. My back’s actually not that bad cuz the knee hurts so much. Okay, I’m going to try and get a I’m going to try and get another hotel room. Uh, and I’m going to do some editing. And this jacket’s not waterproof. Okay, so um that’s it for day six. I’m going to get some food. I’m going to do some editing on my camera, on my computer, and uh I’m going to call it a day. Peace and love. Okay, so we are at my hotel. Welcome. I’ll give you a little tour. in a minute. But first, I want to show you what’s going on with with this satnav. Like, I’m trying to figure it out. So, it says that we’re in a we’re on a right on a ride right now, but we’re not. So, if I go to navigation, browse map, you can see here, it’s just like making like lines, you know, there’s no navigation there. And there’s also no cross to end the road, end the navigation. Right? So I go back and it keeps beeping saying that it’s lost the signal. It’s lost the satellite. It’s found the satellite over and over again. Now I go here and like dude like there’s no way that I can end the ride. There’s no way I can end the ride. And like for example, look, I can’t go and do anything else until I’ve ended the activity in progress, but I don’t know how to. So, this could literally just be me being like an idiot or something. I don’t know. But it’s just I feel like it’s playing up today. When I went to go and do the when I went to go start the ride, I go on commute here on my phone and from this app I create a route and I send the route to this computer, right? So it would do it and then it would be like okay downloading route and then it would download the route and then it would be like calculating and it would get to like 80% 90% like 99% for example then it would just do nothing. Um, and oh my god, and I can’t turn this off. Bit of kebab sauce in my beard. So, I tried to turn it off. Activity in progress. Stop the timer before before putting the device to sleep or powering off. But, dude, how the how the hell do I stop the timer? Like, am I literally being like an idiot right now? Surely it’s not that complicated. So, I’ll go home navigation. Bro, am I being an idiot? This is doing my head in. Like I don’t know if I I literally don’t know if I’m being an idiot or not. Like I mean this garment, it got me here. Like all right, we had some problems in the beginning in Kev. We had some problems and that’s because of the Kamu and dude, this this is this is honestly doing my head in. And it just keeps beeping and I can’t turn it off. I don’t know what to do with it. So on two rides you’ve done like 87 miles. That’s not bad. I thought we did a lot more than that. That’s not That’s not very good. Uh but bro, this is this is honestly this is winding me up me. And I don’t know. I literally don’t know if it’s me being an idiot or if it’s uh if it’s I’ve got a bad device. And again, I’m sure it’s not Garmin. Um, it’s probably because I bought a bad device. I bought it secondhand. So, you know, there’s obviously a reason why the guy sold it. And maybe he sold it because it doesn’t work very well. So, I go on to the Garmin app. There’s no way to control it through this app, I don’t think. This is frustrating me. And the beeping just won’t stop. I don’t even know why it’s beeping. And then we also got sunburn. So the sunburn right now. It’s kind of okay. It’s really bad like in the middle on the shoulders. Like it’s starting to feel better now. It’s like feeling really uh itchy. I want to itch it. And here as well. I got sunburn somewhere here. Like oh dude, it’s so itchy there. But oh, and it’s pain really painful here. But dude, like uh yesterday and the day before yesterday, bro, I was like a tomato. Like really was like a tomato. Um but I’ve got some medicine, which I’m using. And I’m guessing it’s working. I’m going to take a shower now and then use some more. I got this. It’s for all kinds of burns, including sunburn. So, um I’m using this and um what else was I complaining about earlier? Oh, my knee, bro. My knee my knee is in a lot of pain. And uh mate, it’s just so annoying. It’s just so annoying. And I found out my jacket is not waterproof. Oh, mate. I thought it was waterproof. Like, it looks like a waterproof jacket. But it’s not. Okay, fair enough. It’s a wind runner. That doesn’t sound waterproof to me. Probably all of these things that I’m making mistakes on. They’re all like my my fault, you know? So, I mean, that obviously obviously says Windr Runner, so it’s obviously not a waterproof jacket. I thought it was Oh, just a bad day, boys. But this is really frustrating. And I can’t turn it off. I don’t know how to reset it. Like, if I hold it down. Ah, done it. I think it reset. 71 battery used. 71 battery. 71% battery left. Okay. So, a lot of these issues that I’m having, it could just be me. It could just be me like not knowing how to Okay, it’s reset. It could be me. getting frustrated, like getting angry about stuff. It’s annoying. Yeah. So, a lot of these issues that I’m facing, it could be me being an idiot, right? It could be. Like, I feel like the satnav shouldn’t be that complicated to use. Um, I did see something about loading like shorter roots and that makes sense. Okay, I get it. load a shorter route. But my routes that I’m loading are like like well today I today I tried to load a 100 mile route. So maybe I need to make it smaller like even smaller than 100 miles. Um but yeah like my back my knee and then it started raining. So like I was there in the rain and I was under a tree actually. I was like and kind of shelter but like my bag was on my back hurting my shoulder. I was getting wet. The satan wasn’t working. My knee was sore. And I just thought, you know what? Today is just I’m not doing it. I’m not doing it today. So, um I went and got a hotel room. And here’s my hotel room. Got a nice shower. There’s me, bed, AC. Nice little courtyard. It’s okay. A thousand grievance for this. It’s not a lot of money. Um but yeah, we’re defeated today, boys. Uh I do feel like kind of let down with myself. It’s just one of those days today. Just one of those days. Like last night, I didn’t sleep like at all. Basically, I couldn’t get comfortable. Like I’m trying to lay on my shoulder, lay on my back, lay on my stomach. Like nothing was working. So I had a bad night’s sleep last night. I had a bad night’s sleep the night before and I’m pretty sure I had a bad night sleep the night before that as well. So, I’m going to take a shower and then I’m going to do some computer stuff on my computer. So, it’s a failure today, boys. It’s an absolute right off. But, we’re going to get it. We’re going to get it hard. Maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day. Uh I I uh I said to my brothers like, you know, I’ve I’ve messed up today. And they’re like, “Yeah, you need a break and stuff.” And I know, I know, but I want that like like David Gogggins like, “Oh yeah, just keep moving.” Like bro like has a broken leg and he just like keeps running and I’ve got like a sore knee. Oh, your knee. Oh, sunburn. Oh, big baby. Nah, I’m going to get it. I’ll get it hard. I really I also really want to try and figure out this satnav because that was If the satnav was working, I would be on the road right now. Um because that was really frustrating. That was really frustrating and I don’t like it when things don’t work. So I’m gonna figure out if it’s me being an idiot, if it’s me being a proto deil or if the satnav is a problem. Maybe it needs updating or something. But um when I figure out the issue, it might be me. I’ll tell you. Uh it probably is me. But for now, for now, I’m here in this hotel room.