Sunday I woke up feeling sluggish. After eating breakfast, my body like it had been whipped mercilessly by a dozen wet rotini noodles. For all the world, I felt like I was coming down with a whopper of a cold. The weather was crappy outside so at least I didn't feel bad for not going out and riding. I laid down and tried to rest my body. Then at 11am, the lights went out. Earlier in the morning there was a very brief power blip but all was well. Not this time. We had been having strong winds all morning so a tree branch must have succumbed to the gusts and knocked down a power line.
There has been a disturbing trend with the last three major power outages that I have encountered. Each time, it corresponds to a cycling related event that I ended up missing. Back in July '06, the power went out the day before Floyd Landis's dramatic stage win. Doping issues aside, that was a very dramatic stage that I never have seen. Power remained off for 48 hrs. Then, in Dec '06, I was scheduled to leave the cyclocross state championships when we had a massive ice and snow storm that knocked out power for 36 hrs.
That brings us to yesterday when I was really looking forward to watching the first Sunday of Versus' coverage of the Giro d'Italia. Stage 2 looked to be a stage with the potential for an exciting, short uphill finsh. Once again, power issues foiled me when the lights went out at 11am.
As of this morning, when I left for work, the power had been out for 18 hours. Next Sunday is a boring flat stage in the Giro. I guarantee, there will be no electrical issues for that snooze-fest. All I ask is that there be no problems two Sundays from now, when race finishes atop Passo Fedaia at the end of a brutal stage.
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There has been a disturbing trend with the last three major power outages that I have encountered. Each time, it corresponds to a cycling related event that I ended up missing. Back in July '06, the power went out the day before Floyd Landis's dramatic stage win. Doping issues aside, that was a very dramatic stage that I never have seen. Power remained off for 48 hrs. Then, in Dec '06, I was scheduled to leave the cyclocross state championships when we had a massive ice and snow storm that knocked out power for 36 hrs.
That brings us to yesterday when I was really looking forward to watching the first Sunday of Versus' coverage of the Giro d'Italia. Stage 2 looked to be a stage with the potential for an exciting, short uphill finsh. Once again, power issues foiled me when the lights went out at 11am.
As of this morning, when I left for work, the power had been out for 18 hours. Next Sunday is a boring flat stage in the Giro. I guarantee, there will be no electrical issues for that snooze-fest. All I ask is that there be no problems two Sundays from now, when race finishes atop Passo Fedaia at the end of a brutal stage.
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