On January 3rd I decided that was it and went for a ride, fast forward to the end of July and apart from the six weeks off for surgery I've ridden trails three to four times a week for a total of 980 miles and a loss of 25lbs. The feeling is quite life changing, I happier, in a much better mental state and physically so much better. A lot of my watch related time went into riding and my interest in watches or at least getting new watches has waned. For the last few months I rotated between my Datejust and Pelagos and didn't open the boxes to look at the others, save for pulling out the SKX recently to do something dirty.
In the last seven months I've become a much better and faster rider but found I was on the wrong bike, it's a great trail bike but it's heavy at 32lbs and has more travel than I need so the browsing and dreaming started. Long story short something had to go to get a new bike, sold the Pelagos and I just ordered a Scott Spark RC Pro, at 23lbs it should amazing, I'm like a kid at Christmas and the next ten days are going to be hard.
My feelings about watches will never go away but they have changed. I'm pretty sure if I added an Explorer at some point I'd be good. I'm happy with my collection although I do feel there is a hole where the UX then the Pelagos sat but it's a hole I can live with for now.
