MueckeRacing

had a nice ride out to Yakima on Sunday – everything is green for a while, the trees are all in blossom. The bees seemed to be tending to their trees and not bothering to fly into my mouth, and the temps were chilly but far better than weeks ago.
I arrived in Yakima with a few more miles needed, so I wandered around the city making a nuisance of myself on the main drag through town. I finally found the access point to the bike/pedestrian path out by the river, then wandered around some more before finally coming to rest near the mall where Sammi had a meeting with her prof.
I was a bit early, so I laid down in the grass and had a little nap, then wandered over to meet her, got introduced to her prof., then took another nap in the van.
By the time we drove home, though, I was feeling a bit more run-down than I should have after a mere 95 miles, and within an hour had a 101 degree fever.
Today is Thurs., and I loath to look at the thermometer again – I made it to work yesterday, but only barely. The highly efficient urgent-care idiot doctor who took all of 3 minutes of her time before raping me for $98 said it was the common bronchitis that is floating around, and that a ten day course of antibiotics would cure me and have a swell day.
Well, everything I read on the webmd pages say that antibiotics do nothing for bronchitis – obviously the fever is the body’s way of fighting the thing.
So now I have lost nearly two full weeks of what would have been the last and biggest push into the strength of leg/strength of character phase of my training, and am instead left wondering if I will even be back on the bike this weekend.
Nice. I knew I shouldn’t have accepted the “you are required to sit in a room with 30 non-healthy people for a six hour first-aid/cpr class” line of bullshit from my boss.

Made it through the snowstorm, arriving in Winters about two hours behind schedule. Got checked in, I’ll be racing under my favorite number 276 (same as last year). The weather is looking pretty good for tomorrow, mid sixties and no rain forcast. Looks like a small field of racers – maybe due to it being Easter weekend.
Anyways I’m looking forward to a great day of racing tomorrow, and Dad is looking forward to me staying on a very precise schedule and pace – so he can know when to quit napping and get up and feed me on the night loop.

1:30 just a bit north of Redding. I-5 northbound closed due to severe winter weather. Good thing we’re going south.

Made it to Weed, though we did have to stop and take the wheels off the roof due to the high wind. One of my crappy Yakima wheel holders was on the verge of failing, so it was a good thing we stopped.
Once out on the fwy we are again being treated to massive snowfall – and northbound traffic was at a standstill. They’d been there long enough to build some pretty impressive snowmen in the median. Southbound was not to be outdone though, and we narrowly avoided a little mini-accident as someone tried to slow down and change lanes.
Dad keeps saying this is all good – it means the really crappy weather is on it’s way north. heck, the sun is probably out right now in Winters.

just passed the Ca border, still snowing.Drove for nearly five hours in the snow. Luckily Dad found Rush on the radio. Hoping the Shasta summit area doesn’t slow us up too much in the next forty or so miles to Weed.

Left for Davis 12/24 at 3:00 this morrning. Encountered a snow storm in Bend at 7:00. Stopped in La Pine for gas and a set of tire chains, go figure.