Unplanned Recovery

Ahh, the "morning after." Monday morning I got out of bed with a muffled grunt. The quads were a little reluctant and the back has certainly felt better. It's been worse, though, so I did eventually make it out to the relatively abandoned levee bike path. Needless to say, a nice easy active recovery ride was in order, so I put in a bit over an hour of easy spinning and called it a day, hoping to be more or less ready to go by Tuesday. The Wife had a late morning flight out to Tucson on Tuesday for a conference, so it was looking like I'd be able to do the long levee ride and still have enough time to drive her to the airport. That was the plan until about 2:30 am when the phone rang. It was Orbitz informing her that her flight had been cancelled and she'd been automatically re-booked on a much later flight. Well, the "much later" part was a problem, so after about an hour of internet and telephone work she was able to get a spot on an earlier flight. Unfortunately, that pretty much knocked out my morning training ride. I was holding out some hope of getting in a ride after work, but as it turned out I didn't get out of the office until nearly 6:30, so I just logged it as an unplanned recovery day.

I got the nearly full results of Rouge-Roubaix at around 5:30, so by 6 am I had them up on the LAMBRA website. I was rather surprised to find that I ended up 22nd in the A race - better than last year. I was first in the 45+ and Keith was 2nd in the 35+ (not counting the masters who rode their categories rather than their age groups), so that's not too bad. Jorge and Dave made the top 20 in the Cat. 4 race too. There was some controversy about one of the Metro VW riders who apparently ignored the 3-mile neutral zone at the start and stayed off the front for a long time, causing some other teams to chase. It's always something.....

The race certainly got a lot of media attention this year. There was even an article in the New York Times. Go figure. So I think I may try and sneak in a few extra miles tomorrow morning before the regular ride starts. The weather around here is still pretty warm and dry, and I hate to see that go to waste!