Boo

Big tall freak in orange suit trying to scare you.

Did it work? Doubtful.

Well this week has been very interesting. Starting with the no sleep Saturday night and the little one staying home with my wife on Monday to yesterday when my wife hit the urgent-care place with a myriad of symptoms and a guess that she had strep throat (turned out to be an accurate guess) and then me hauling the little one over to her doc's office to confirm that wow, she has it too. Wed night my throat had that dry because the heater's been running all night because it is 10°F and 10% humidity feeling. Last night was a bit worse. Like someone dumped a bag of sand back there. All itchy and ouchy swallowing. Feels fine most of the time. But as a precaution I grabbed my $10 and headed over to the urgent-care after dropping the oldest off at school, the one of us who has actually slept well all week (Hmm, no sleep... get sick, never would have thought that possible).

Throat culture was negative but the doc said my throat looked not good. And my breathing was tight. Made me do a breath test and for a minute there I contemplated what it might be like to join the ranks of the inhaler packing cyclists. But damn it, the damn breath test said I could breath just fine. No problems with my lungs. Good thing I guess, right? So the throat could be bad, could be fine, right now it isn't bad at all. Feels fine actually, just slightly aware when I swallow. Nice relief.

To top it all off i have been fighting something in my right hip area. I can't walk, but I can run, go up stairs and ride the bike pain free. But if I take a step the wrong way I essentially fall down. Can't lift the left leg off the ground without falling over. That was wed and thurs. Today? this morning woke up and it was a touch sore but not a problem right now. I can feel it, but it isn't slowing me down. Still trying not to stress it any more. But with everyone sick and all that's going on I didn't get my planned wed intensity in on the bike although I did commute in. And yesterday, no commute but I got on the bike for a 20-30 minute spin, just to warm up and break a sweat. Not sure if it is in the cards to do a proper opener tonight.

And all that turns what I was hoping would be a targeted plan to be in the best form for tomorrow's race as possible into "don't worry about it, show up and have fun, it will be okay." The plan sort of unraveled saturday night when I slept for no more than 1 hour at a time. But well, there are a few more cross races coming up. But few races when I'm sitting at the bottom of the race predictor (i'm pretty sure all those unknowns will be ahead of me anyway - well at least most of them). I guess it is good that I've got a primo start position. Right behind the half of the field with Verge points and right in front of those who are pissed they don't have verge points yet. What a wonderful place to be.

But it will be fun. I'll have those fancy new Grammos around if anyone wants to take a look at em. I shouldn't be hard to find.

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