Go.....Nope False Start!

The subject line pretty much sums up the past month or so. It seems to be just one thing after another that has set back training in some way. Fortunately with the 'A' races some months away I have the time to claw my way back into shape before then. First it was a succession of out-of-town visitors (which was fun but never great for training), then a stomach virus before Xmas and then a head cold this past week.

To a certain extent I think that some enforced rest will be helpful as the season goes along. Last year I had an awesome winter of training despite the snow and I came out in April/May absolutely flying. By the time that IM Lake Placid was around in late July I felt a little burnt out and the result perhaps showed that. This year I'm racing Ironman late in the season at Wisconsin and don't need to peak until then. Eagleman is early in June and so that would be the 1st peak.

So anyway with the John Howard Performance Sports training camp out in San Diego coming up in the middle of February, it is now time to get down to business. The crew heading out there are stronger riders than me and so it should be a brutal week......I'm hoping that the next few weeks aren't false starts and I can get back to logging some serious hours!

Wham.....Out for the Count!

Had a good ride on Thursday at the D-Ville group ride and then on Friday met with Kyle for some lunch at Nando's. Some 12 hours later I felt like I was on my deathbed with nausea, headache and massive bloating! No idea what it was but Sarah felt ok and we had eaten the same things bar the Nando's (not that it is definitely Nando's but highly suspicious)

The bad news was that after a severe lack of sleep and a very early start we were heading over to Church Creek to direct the race. Normally I probably would have bagged it but being co-race director you don't get to do that. To top it off the car didn't have the a/c after squirrels had chewed through the electrics (found that out on Monday).

A good idea of how bad I was feeling was that I didn't even have my typical Wawa coffee on the way over to the Eastern Shore! Fortunately all the pre-race work that we had put in worked a treat and race day went off without a glitch (once we got the school open). Results worked great this time thanks to the internet connection and we even got the results posted before some of the riders were back at the school :-)

So now as I write this on Wednesday, I feel much better but for Saturday, Sunday and most of Monday I felt awful and had no energy to do anything....just the build-up I need for the Annapolis 10 miler this weekend. Hopefully the next few days will be trouble free and I can rock it on Sunday.