What was the good news about Saturday's ride? One: Parker is back on his bike and looking fit. Two: I didn't get a flat
That about sums it up.
Roughly two hours into the ride, Giuseppe and Patrice attacked a typical small hill in So. IL. I hopped on their wheels... for a while. Two-thirds of the way up my body sprung a leak. I creeped over the top and my body said "No mas". The rest of the way every little rise was a chore. The last two hills did me in. Steppig(?) softened me up and the D Rd threw me down and kicked me in the arse.
This was a sobering ride. It's amazing how badly a cold can affect the body. My fitness is way down, my strength is down, everything that can be down, is down. I have serious doubts about racing Webster Groves next weekend. Maybe some consistent riding this week will put me back to where I was a couple weeks ago, climbing big mountains without too much trouble, instead of struggling over a hundred foot climb.
To make this weekend even better I had to monitor the computers at work. Unfortunately, programs didn't run the smoothest. As an added bonus I had the "pleasure" of talking three times between midnight and 1am with two Indian or Pakistani folk named "Chip" and "Benny" about why they couldn't send us a file. This has not been a good weekend.
That about sums it up.
Roughly two hours into the ride, Giuseppe and Patrice attacked a typical small hill in So. IL. I hopped on their wheels... for a while. Two-thirds of the way up my body sprung a leak. I creeped over the top and my body said "No mas". The rest of the way every little rise was a chore. The last two hills did me in. Steppig(?) softened me up and the D Rd threw me down and kicked me in the arse.
This was a sobering ride. It's amazing how badly a cold can affect the body. My fitness is way down, my strength is down, everything that can be down, is down. I have serious doubts about racing Webster Groves next weekend. Maybe some consistent riding this week will put me back to where I was a couple weeks ago, climbing big mountains without too much trouble, instead of struggling over a hundred foot climb.
To make this weekend even better I had to monitor the computers at work. Unfortunately, programs didn't run the smoothest. As an added bonus I had the "pleasure" of talking three times between midnight and 1am with two Indian or Pakistani folk named "Chip" and "Benny" about why they couldn't send us a file. This has not been a good weekend.
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I was off for a couple of weeks with some sort of virus that had me in bed for the majority of the time. My fitness went way backwards. I plan on lining up at Webster though. We can help each other punch tickets.
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