Sick…ugh

So I went to the doctor this morning after two days of being sick (read: swollen tonsils, sore throat, general malaise, etc…). He took a look at my swollen tonsils and symptoms and promptly gave me some antibiotics.

His prescription described it as pharyngitis and he hooked me up with a z-pak for it. Hopefully this will do the trick but it better work quick with the state u23 race only two days away. At the moment I’d be pretty useless–rather feel like I was hit by a small vehicle (vespa perhaps?). But I’m going to play by ear and hope things get better and will probably race regardless.

Anyway I’ll keep ya’ll posted…and for that matter get in touch with Ethan about the situation as soon as BSC is open.

Boykin

Busy Weekend

So I had a pretty full weekend doing the Settlers Life Omnium in TN this weekend.  Spence and I did the Roan Groan RR on Saturday-which was REALLY REAlly hard.  It was only 55 miles or so long but ended with a 7 mile climb (not to mention the 95 degree heat).  I think we both operated under the assumption that “Oh it’s only 55 miles; I only need two bottles…”.  We were so wrong…I was unbelievably dehydrated at the finish..whereupon after a cooler spilling there was no water (until they later went and refilled it).

Anyway, Spencer–after a good ride– pulled a top twenty finish and I was just outside of the top-twenty. Personally, I was pretty disappointed in my ride–I was in the lead chase group of 5 riders or so with Brookwalter (of BMC) setting a fast pace…then about 2.5 miles into the climb Scott Stewart (of VMG I think) attacked and I popped.  The rest of the climb was pretty miserable…I was really glad to finish it up.

The crit the next day went better (aside from some road rash and inflexible (and unreasonable british usa cycling officials).  Don’t even get me started about them.  But I sincerely hope that they, on the off chance, happen across this.  Quite frankly, they were terrible at their job, inflexible, and are (according to the race organizer Renault (spelling??; also incidentally a very nice guy–put on a good race weekend) not being invited back to officiate next year.

Anyway, a big thanks to Chris Sheehan for putting Spencer and Reid up on Friday night and offering up a place to stay. Chris, incidentally, had a good weekend racing the masters—we all know how fast he was and is despite not having much time to train.  And to Andrew Raab for hooking some of us (Reid, Alder, Diego, and myself) with a place to stay on Saturday…we stayed at a “cabin” in Boone that was incredible.  In the manner that those places often turn out to be.

Stay tuned for a few pictures from the weekend when I manage to find both my camera and upload cable (both are somewhere in the Echo–which I might add tore up some mountain roads this weekend…I was struggling just to keep up with Andrew on the mountain roads–he was ripping it).  But I only have a couple since it, unfortunately, ran out of batteries after only a few pictures.

Dump the Car (Literally); Ride the Bike

Photo Courtesy of Adam DeWitt. Seen on road during a Sunday training ride…we just had to stop and take a photo. Too good not to.

Belgium Knee Warmers

http://www.belgiumkneewarmers.com/

Unbelievable

This is unreal. I saw this article on the BBC and it is totally unreal.  It talks about an uncontacted indigenous tribe in Brazil…they took photos of them from the air to prove their existence (I guess that they’re in a very, very remote region of the rain forests there…anyway these people went so far as to largely disappear after seeing the plane.  Later, on another pass, the men were painted up and went so far as to aim and fire arrows at the aircraft.

I mean can you imagine seeing an airplane and not having a clue as to what it is…  “What is that man?”  “I don’t know…some kinda giant bird.”

Anyway, check out the article….CRAZY.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7426794.stm