On Again

I felt so lousy yesterday that I went home around 4 pm and by 5:00 I was asleep. Woke up around 7:30, rather confused (what day is it?), but feeling a bit better. At least I got some sleep last night, and when I awoke this morning I didn't feel feverish, so naturally I decided to go for a ride. This may or may not have been wise - time will tell. It felt like I had been off the bike for a week, which isn't far from the truth, and the morning levee ride felt pretty good. I almost always feel better when I'm on the bike, and this morning was no exception. The pace was steady and moderate, especially considering the strong south wind, and hopefully the ride did me more good than harm. By the time I left for work my head was stuffy again and I had a dull unilateral headache, so I downed three kinds of drugs and headed to work in the car. The Wife is over in San Diego at a conference all week, so I get to take a car to work like a normal lazy-ass American. The weather is actually really nice, and if I wasn't still fighting this infection I probably would have ridden the bike anyway. I'm still not feeling too great and this is getting really old. The club is having kind of a weekend training camp thing this weekend. Hopefully it won't kill me.

So I got an email from Gina V the other day. She's in San Francisco and loving it (who wouldn't). She and three of her Diet Cheerwine teammates hit their first NRC race last weekend, the McLane Pacific Classic, and got a couple of top-ten finishes. Gina got tangled up in a crash in the crit and hurt her elbow, then discovered the bike wouldn't shift on her way to the pit, but they gave her a pit bike that almost fit, so she jumped back in with 13 laps to go and ended up getting 9th in a crit with about 80 starters. They got themselves in a few CycleNews photos [#2], [#3]. The Diet Cheerwine kit is mostly white with red lettering. See if you can Find Waldo. Match Day for her is March 16. That's when she and all the other graduating medical students get their top picks for Residency programs matched to those of the programs themselves and find out where they'll be living next.