Tuesday ride, etc…
Posted on August 5, 2008
Before I start I wanted to put down that last tuesday there was a crash in the Team in Training ride and I guess a guy broke his collarbone. I had pulled out 1 minute before it happened. Can you imagine if I had crashed? On top of all the shit that I am dealing with!!!!
I have been feeling like my body is starting to fall apart. Mentally I can’t shut down – so much work and things to worry about. I guess that is part of getting older. Can’t imagine having to take care of a kid or a family. Props to everyone out there that have their hands full with jobs, family and that try to ride once in a while. Anyways, so my mind is fried, my body is hurting and when one thing goes away another shows up. I now have developed some sort of allergy to something. Rashes all along my sides, but just there. Arm pits all the way down to the waste, just in a narrow band. I am trying to figure out what in the world I have eaten to get me this stuff… Already rubbing vagisil all over it 
My back is 75% back. Todays ride felt pretty good, but dang am I suffering. I am out of shape and this sucks. I gained 7lbs sitting on my ass for 10 days. I am such an Oprah when it comes to weight. When I work out I get skinny but then I stop for a little bit and I balloon.
I started to watch my weight and for the next 2 weeks I plan on losing these 7lbs. They were mainly from eating sweets and laying in bed for 23 hours/day because of my back. Now with the workouts semi-consistent and some less eating I will be able to get down in weight.
One month from today I have Fiesta Island Time Trials. It should be fun… i hope… at least enough not to get totally embarrassed. Need to get on the TT bike and now is the time. I might do it next week.
2 weeks from today I will be rowing at masters nationals. Should be another ball buster performance. With everything that has happened my expectations shifted from doing very good (couple of titles) to just surviving it. I entered some hard events and now I regret it.
Anyways, these are the updates. My cycling racing season is over I am pretty sure. Looking for a mountain bike since I took the one I just bought home. Maybe some team 12 or 24 hour races should give me a good kick in the nuts….
BTW, sorry for the expletives and loose language. I was particularly in the mood today. Not sure why, but I had to put it out there. Take care folks…. don’t get any rashes.
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I have been out there on Tuesday 2x so far. I was in a front group of about 12 when we went by and say the aftermath of an accident last week.It sucks when it happens but it looked like a small group of people and someone crossed wheels.
Last night exploded again too….
I doubt what you have is Shingles. Sounds more like Hives or such from stress. Dude! You stress too much! Gotta get on top of things and figure it out. Believe me! Turns out it was most likely stress that give me a Kidney disease 7 years ago that almost killed me. A lifestyle change (learnin how to chill out!) was the biggest change that came from that.