I wake up on Sunday just before my alarm goes off. I can't sleep past 6am even though I try. I wake up and read the news and go eat breakfast. When I go oback to the room, the electricity will not come on. O go to the front desk and tell them. The lady says the maintenance people are off on Sunday and cannot fix it for 24 hours. And she just stares at me. Am I supposed to go without elecctricity for 24 hours? I didn't know this was a camping trip. Finally she says I can switch rooms because there will probably be more problems with that room. I keep staring at her. I just unpacked everything and she wants me to pack it all back up and move to another room and unpack? Yes, this is what happens. I get the exact same room one floor higher. But at least the Internet and electricity work. I walk to my bicycle store and the owner is happy to see me and we talk for a few minutes. He has one daughter at a university in Japan and another daughter at a university in China. We get me fitted with a bicycle and I go out to Huay Tueng Thao reservoir. Though I cannot do laps around the lake as I used to do because they fixed the hole in the fence that I used to sneak through, I can do laps of the adjacent area with a dedicated running/cycling path. This is usally my first ride each time I come to CHiang Mai because it helps me get my legs back in the heat but strenuous enough with u and down rolling paths to get in a good workout. After the ride I have a warm, holt, and cold shower (because the water temperature keeps chaning at random), meditate, eat some salty chips and Coke, and watch some Netflix during the heat of the day. Near 6pm I walk over to the Thapae Gate for the Sunday night walking street/market and just mingle with the local Thai people and the foreigners. And finally I walk back to my hotel and get ready for sleep.
I sleep very well on Sunday night into Monday morning - only waking up briefly once and then being surprised to see it was 6am with the alarm going off. After breakfast I relax a bit and then go for the traditional second ride from Chiang Mai out to Lamphun and back for about 60 kilometers. After a shower I meditate, walk to the grocery store for supplies, and then watch the title-deciding F1 race from Abu Dhabi.