Medicated

I went out for a ride this morning a bit early in order to give myself time to make my 9 a.m. doctor's appointment. It was quite warm - over 70 F in fact - but the bend in the levee around Ochsner hospital was socked in with fog as usual. Pretty soon I ran into Tim R and turned around to ride with him for a while until we saw the regular group coming. Turned around again and rode with the group for a while before I had to head back to the farm. Uneventful. I hadn't taken any tylenol or pseudofed or guiafed and by the time I got home my head was hurting again, but I figured I'd go to the clinic without any drugs that might mask what was going on. After filling out five forms that asked for all sorts of information, like whether your spouse was abusing you and whether you were afraid to go home, I finally got in to see "Dr. Ravi" who is of, I guess, Indian heritage with an unpronouncable name but nonetheless 100% American. Temp: normal. Blood Pressure: 110/70. Weight: 131 (hey, I was fully clothed). He looks in my ears and says he can still see blood around my eardrum from the airplane descent last Saturday or Monday, but anyway since I wasn't running a fever the plan is to use Flonase for a couple of days to see if it clears up, and if not, then to start taking the amoxicillin. So we'll see. I went home, downed a couple of Advil, sprayed corticosteroids in my nose and went to work where there are a couple of fires burning that will need to be put out before COB today.

The Unforzen Caveman provided a nice link to a brief writeup on Rouge Roubaix by the winner, Mike Olheiser, who made the whole thing sound quite easy. What I want to know is, who were the Herring guys he mentions? Sounds like he rolled away on the second of three dirt sections and ended up finishing two and a half minutes ahead of the next two guys. It's impressive that he avoided getting caught on the final dirt section where the really steep hills are. I got the complete results from Shane just last night and will get them up on the websites as soon as I get a chance, which probably won't be till tonight.

Team training weekend coming up. Should be fun if I don't get dropped too much.