Then seven days of antibiotics. This was the sickest I have been in a long, long time! That is what it took to heal the bronchitis and asthma symptoms I have been dealing with since Sea Otter. I have one more antibiotic pill to take and then I will be clear to go racing - just in time to ramp it up for Temecula.
I bet this was the best possible thing that could have happened….
The Plague is what I caught on the way home from Sea Otter. Well, maybe not the real plague because I think the real "Plague" of medieval times was some kind of pox, which I don't have. I have probably something closer to pneumonia. Nice. Lots of greenish goo coming out of my lungs. What is to blame, you ask? Hmmm, let me count the ways in which I made myself susceptible to said illness....
I was lucky enough to join my friends from Nature’s Path at the Whidbey Island marathon event this weekend on Whidbey Island, an island beside Anacortes in Washington State. The very cool thing about this event is that it is “GREEN” to the core, which fits perfectly with the ideals of Nature’s Path as a company and makes me feel very good to be a part of it. It was fun to speak to a diverse group of runners, most of which were not at their first half or full marathon. However, the day I flew down to Whidbey I had to learn a life lesson courtesy of the universe, so that story first….
The super custom that got me in trouble.. even BOOTIES!!!!
The season is one day away from beginning… I will be racing the first of the US National Mountain Bike Series events tomorrow in Fontana, CA. This is my first time at this event which, now that I have pre rode the course, is crazy! This race course is VERY similar to our event in Temecula, which I was unaware of, so this is even better preparation than I thought. Very cool. Ross has joined me down here in Southern California for a week of fun times in Palm Springs and Arizona and he will also be my mechanic/feed zone person/personal cheerleader while he is here…
Ross enjoying a WARM March evening at our adopted Palm Springs home
Product Testing A Powertap on the BMC Shiver (and a Fourstroke for Ross)
Written by melanie
This is a shoutout to all of my poor friends stuck in central Canada under 50 centimeters of new snow.
Luckily only a few spring flowers are visible at this time of the year because otherwise, the mix of green and bright spring yellow and purple would be truly blinding .
Yes, smugness over the weather is a prerequisite for living on the Westcoast of Canada.
Enjoy... this is a crap video we took with my camera on a ride this past weekend. Victoria is the best!
The top section of "Fun Trail"
Another section... both of which are much scarier from the top looking down:
And Ross, riding a section while I took a crappy video, with his wrecked shoulder but still having fun:
How often does stopping to take video of how cool the terrain you are training on happen in road triathlon? Reason # 8,456 why I think XTERRA is so much cooler than Ironman or ITU. Sorry SQW... it is the truth...although both Ross and I still think you are awesome.
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