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Wednesday, October 20, 2004

Uhhggghh! Blech! Arrrghh!

Wow, what a sucky ride this last weekend. Actually, it wasn't the ride but the rider that was sucky. The ride was actually pretty nice except for the rollers just after the Florida border. The thing was that the orginally forecast tailwind turned into an actual headwind on Saturday morning. Now, on a normal century you're riding a loop so headwind early in the ride turns into tailwind later. This means if you push early, you'll be OK later. In this case, the headwind just got worse as the day went on so when I pushed early, I paid later. My legs "blew to the world" as Paul Sherwin might say at about mile 80 and I ended up limping the rest of the way in but I still made it. I haven't ridden that poorly in a long time. So, I'm taking this week off. Obviously my body needs some recovery time so I'll just chill this week and see if I can find a way to ramp up for Dauset and Gainesvill in a couple of weeks. What may end up happening is that I take the rest of October off and then start training for next year in November. We'll just have to see. Right now though, I'm toast.

The rest of the weekend was interesting. Most of it was sort of a mish-mash of misplanning and forgetting trivial things like all my clothes back in Enterprise. It made for a very odd weekend at the beach where I got to sort of not really worry about anything since there was really nothing I could do about it. No clothes, no car, no personal items, really sore legs so no riding...so I just chilled a bit. It probably good that there wasn't any tequilla laying around or I might have ended up with a tatoo with no recollection of how I got it. Panama City isn't Key West but there are definitely similarities. Still, it was good to spend time with the lovely wife's sisters and their families.

Job #1 now is to get caught back up on my sleep and let my body rest and rejuvinate. With the amount of work work I have to do, this is a good time for some extra time.

Thanks for reading.

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