Patience

FINISHED THE GIRO RIDE BEFORE THE BAD WEATHER ROLLED IN ON SUNDAY

So I've been kind of laying low while waiting for things to heal up, which is not to say I haven't been riding.  Even so, it does require a certain measure of patience.  The road rash, other than the big hole over one of my knuckles, has mostly healed up uneventfully thanks to a box of Tegaderm.  By far the biggest issue has been the broken rib.  Now, nearly two weeks out, it has improved enough that I have been able to sleep reasonably well the last few nights, although sneezing is still to be avoided at all costs. 

On the group rides there has been this little voice in the back of my head reminding me that riding with both a broken rib and broken helmet deserves a little extra measure of caution.  So basically I spend a week or so trying not to crash and not to breathe too hard.  Now that the rib is hurting a little less and I have a nice new helmet, I think I should be more or less back to normal by the weekend, although I'm sure the rib will continue to cause minor problems for a couple more weeks. Anyway things are improving.  Locally, we've had a lot of rain this week that hasn't affected my morning rides, except that it's been extremely humid, but has affected some the evening training races.  It killed off both the Tuesday time trial and the Wednesday training race on the Lakefront, in addition to last Saturday's track races up in Baton Rouge where we sat around under tents for about four hours hoping it would stop long enough to get in some racing, but no such luck.  Hopefully we will fare better next Saturday.  Otherwise, it's been really busy at work and there has been a lot of LAMBRA work (I still need to finish scoring the last race for LCCS points).  We've gotten a number of the August race permits processed, so things are going OK on that front.