Blokes – any blokes suffer from being more grumpy than normal..

..but just for a few days a month?

Over the weekend I have been feeling distinctly ‘meh’ – just woke up like it on Saturday morning, and the feeling seems to have passed this morning.

I took the kids on a ride on Sunday morning, watched the GP and went for a ride on some new paths last night so all should be hunky dory!

Years ago I remember reading something about ‘bio-rhythms’ – is it just a load of tosh?

..awaits abuse along the lines of PMT-like symptoms 😉

I’m a firm believer in mens monthlies.

yeah. i try and stay out of everyones way.

Its hard to say but sometimes you do a ride and it doesn’t mean anything.
Another day you do the same ride and it’s the most uplifting thing in the world. Well done for knowing its you and not blaming everyone else.
Accept it and drink more water.

REM Cycle.

yep – used to get it quite bad. Id bite the wife’s head off for a few days a month for no reason. Felt a bit of a shit about it. I kept meaning to start a diary to see if I could log my behavioural cycles and maybe overlay it with hers and see if there was something in it but never got around to it. But I haven’t suffered from it for the last 18 months or so, so something must have changed but Ive no idea what.

May be Ive gone through the menopause 😉

I had a bad weekend… all my mood apparently. Grrrrrr.

Might have been compounded by having no bikes at the moment… sold my 456 to my dad in the end, bought that back (not his cuppa tea) but it is in scotland, and my forks and shock are badgered so no commie.

I think mine may have been sleep related in all seriousness though.

ta, chaps, might show some of these to the missus, as she was getting to the point where she didn’t believe me when I was saying it /wasn’t/ something she’d done.

Yep, I’ve noticed this, housemate, my dad, some of my male friends are just shitty, and then are fine again.

Defo do that myself – but I reckon its sleep related, sort of an accumulated lack of sleep – if I recharge my cells with a few early nights then I’m a different person

manstruating

genuine giggle slipped out at alfabus’ comment…

it’s the manstrual cycle, only it’s NOT a cycle and can happen WHENEVER I F*****G LIKE. ALRIGHT?!?

kept meaning to start a diary

Excel spreadsheet and Graph FAIL

Never really noticed anything tbh..occasionally grumpy, but arent we all, and usually [ lack of ] sleep related.

Interesting, I’ve had a great weekend on paper, beer, lots of riding, a BBQ, all the good stuff. But I have been a right moody sod, snappy and generally no fun to be around. Odd.

right moody bugger here. can get into real low moods, usually triggered off by something or other. Then a couple days later – a proper sleep, no booze, eat properly, bit of exercise and I’m back to norm.

I’m a firm believer in mens monthlies.

What like ‘mens health’ and ‘pro cycling’?

Glad it’s not just me then 😀

I’m a grumpy bastard…I sometimes wish I wasn’t though.

stress has a huge part to play, its all linked to hormones.

Yes, but i’m positive it’s down to my sleep pattern, don’t seem to get enough uninterrupted sleep, keep dozing off and waking up in a panic about 20 minutes later. A plane goes over the house and when the windows open it makes me jump (usually just after I’ve dozed off)

Mix into that shift work……I am grumpy more often than I’m laid back these days

Yep. The complete loss of faith in humanity may have something to do with it.

I find that stress at work has a big effect on this, my sleep suffers and I seem to run out of energy to be happy… seems to be once every 2 months I get like this for me. I also seem to get this 2 days after a night out drinking, just seem to be a bit low and flat.

I am grumpy a lot of the time.
And quite happy about it.

I tried to explain to someone at work the other day – one of those perpetually cheerful sorts – that, just because I’m grumpy, there’s no need to be concerned about me.

So , The weather turns from below average to ace riding conditions . You are stuck at work staring out the window at the fire ball in the sky . Its too hot too sleep , the heat is making your kids go kranky .
The misses wants the garden looking perfect so she can have friends round and its all ‘fab’ .
You know its a matter of weeks until the mud appears again and the sun wont last . You know your favourite dry , dusty singletrack will be sooooo fast , and you cant ride it because of the W words .
then you wonder why youve got manopause?

Yep, I get grumpy in hot weather.
Cannot cope with it at all, nearly shot my foot off on the ranges in Cyprus, defo made me more grumpy.

Rain or shine,any day with y in it….I’m a miserable bugger.

Looking at this place I reckon manstruation is a common thing.

not for me of course 😀

only on the internet. i’m fine in the real world.

yes, broadly a 6 weekly cycle for me. Just coming out of a grumpy phase, last week I nearly punched my computer screen at work I got so frustrated at a colleague, today i just laughed. His twattiness does not seem to cycle, he’s always a ****t.

I cheer up for just a few days a month . . .

Over training with me, if I hack it hard during the week I get very tired and grumpy, not miserable, just well grumpy. I have to eat well (by that I mean lots) and take at least two days off the bike.
If I’m hot during sleepytime I get really grumpy in the mornings, but I’m not too sure if I have “monthlies” better ask MrsBouy that one.

Painters were in for me last weekend…