From bad to worse...

Amazing. My last entry talked about how the last week in January was going to be my first week off the bike in over three years, and that it was due to a business trip to Seoul, unlike the knee problems that kept me off the bike for three weeks back in 2002.

I spoke too soon. Literally the very next day I developed a serious medical issue that would keep me off the bike for a while. On top of that, I was so exhausted after the week in Seoul that I passed out and gave myself a concussion. Those two things combined meant that my planned one week hiatus turned into two weeks off the bike, followed by another recovery week when I only managed one commute totaling six miles.

Fortunately, I’ve recovered quite a bit over the past month, so I guess I’m ready to get back into training. That’s good, because I have a 125-mile ride two months from now, and possibly a 190-mile ride three weeks later. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and make serious training a possibility this spring, otherwise I may have to skip the brevet series again this year.

The other thing to note is that I’ve started moving onto my new laptop, and that means the charts on my Training Page are being updated once again, after a three-month hiatus. The overall assessment is that this was my best winter season ever, until things went to hell at the end of January. Hopefully the charts will show a positive trend again very shortly! I'm really dying to put some serious miles on the Plastic Bullet, if only my body, my workplace, and the weather would all cooperate for a while!