I'm not entirely sure what's wrong with me. I'm sure it's my cold gone into remission. I still feel like crap. Unsure what I'm doing wrong. I'm a healthy person. I lead a very healthy lifestyle. I have a clean home, I eat well, excersize more than most people. I think it all goes back to my office...wheras we have a shitty "sick leave" policy - where people just keep coming into the office sick with the cold/flu that has been going around - because folks are afraid to take time off work because we don't have adequate coverage (if you take a sick day...it eats into the 10 days of "annual leave" - that is a combined sick leave/vacation time). And the stress of it all just adds to it.
Meh.
I called my "supervisor" at work and left her a message on her cell phone voice mail saying that I may not be coming in...and I'd be reachable by phone if there were any emergencies. Then took some Thera-Flu and went back to bed and sweated it out until I finally awoke at almost 7pm. No one called so I suppose there was no office drama. I spent the evening cleaning up after all the snot encrusted tissues and prepared for the next day. After some cup-o-noodle soup I went online to look into my cycling calendar for this next season. I went ahead and *gasp* registered for the double metric century at the Mountains of Misery (126 miles of pure Hill). Must be the Thera-Flu talking - I printed out all the registration forms and put into que the four most difficult Century races on the east coast:
Mountains of Misery: May 28th, 7:00am start, Blacksburg, VA
http://www.mountainsofmisery.com/MoM.html (registered)
Blood, Sweat & Gears: June 24th, Valle Crucis, NC
http://www.bloodsweatandgears.org/Home.html (registration not ready)
Hilly Hellacious Hundred: August 27th, 7:30am start, Fletcher, NC
http://www.blueridgebicycleclub.org/hilly/ (sent registration via mail)
Bridge to Bridge: September 17th, 7:00am start, Lenoir, NC
http://www.caldwellcochamber.org/aboutus.asp?id06=50&cat06=49 (registration not available yet)
Inbetween all of those races, I have about 10 other Centuries that I do - mostly charity rides/races...to raise $$. Not to mention the 1/2 century rides I do for other events, and my training rides with my bike club. It's gonna be a fun season. Travel, cycling, countryside, the drama of the climb and the descent. What makes me wanna get better.
More to come (life is ok).