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Friday, May 12, 2006

So I am healing at a surprising rate from my crash. Much of this is due to the fact that I haven't stopped riding this week. I've done recovery level rides on the rollers each day with the exception of Monday. The last three days have been rides of 46 miles, 53 miles and 37 miles with heart rates in the 120's. The great thing is that my body is stimulated to release human growth hormone but since I haven't torn it up too badly, most of the repair work has been on the muscles damaged in the crash. The only (not inconsiderable) pain now is from the rib itself and that's pretty managable. I even managed to get a good night's sleep last night. Very nice.

I can tell my body is knitting itself back together by looking at what heart rate my body runs at while I'm training at a certain level. All week long it has been slowly trailing downward to a point consistent to where I was prior to the crash and in a good training. Now it should be noted that this is all on the rollers and performance on the road might well be very different. I plan to do a couple more days indoors and then I'll move back onto the road next week. It may be another week or so before I even think about doing in trail work. Normally I wouldn't want to rush back but I've got a race on June 18th up in Helen and a second race on the dirt a week after that. So, I need to get back on the dirt before too long to keep honing skills (please note the lack of a z) and I need to learn the course in Macon as it's fairly new. Macon is blessed to have three courses that are race worthy. This one is supposed to be the hardest in terms of climbing but I don't know how technical it is.

I've got two months to get ready for Nationals. Right now I don't know if I'm anywhere near where I need to be to go but a guy can make a lot of progress in 8 weeks. Of course, if my training is held back by my rib that may determine whether I go right there. I'm hoping to start doing two TT bike rides each week along with some hill work. I guess my world class sprinting skills will remain undeveloped for yet another season.

Until then, it's more roller rides and more X-Files episodes. I've been rewatching the Season 3 mythology episodes where we conclude the human-alien hybrid storyline and begin the black oil thread. What I don't understand is why someone didn't just off Krychek or at least shoot him in the knee and "convince" him to turn over the DAT or that he'll be left in a dark room with Cancer Man and a rusty straight razor. Of course, that little mystery is dwarfed by the continually reoccuring amnesia displayed by A.D. Skinner in terms of how bad Cancer Man's minions are and Scully's consistent ability to believe whatever one of the members of the consortium tells her no matter how venal they admit to being. Since we've just gotten Season 4, maybe we'll see some behavior modification. Of course, I don't think so since I've seen the end of the season episode for that season and it has Scully denying all of Mulder's work. Oh well.

Anyways, thanks for reading.

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