I slap the bacon out ya mouth, dance upon ya sarnie

[bob_summers]

Suspicions confirmed... went to bed Monday night with a sore throat & wooziness, and have been pretty munted all week with a cough and some pretty spectacular wisdom tooth pain! Skipped today's session (Fri) and will try for Sat/Sun.

Managed an easy(ish) 2h run out Weds, but had three near-misses within half a KM of leaving home, a driver who ran a stop sign, then two peds stepping into the road without looking. I came within 30s of my PB up the other side of Igeldo without really pushing which cheered me up a bit.

[bob_summers]

oh and found another couple of pics. First 'subida' of Jaizkibel when it was still fun, then a few hours later coming back the other way. The yin and the yang.

[Alistar]

Not a lot of respite in that profile. Ouch!

Ha ha! Nice pics Bob! Man I so relate to those pic's. Thats the funny thing about cycling aye?! You can feel totally on fire for a few hrs. It's fun, exhilirating and then...holy shit just turning the pedals hurts! It's an unforgiving sport...but thats what I like about it (as long as I don't crash).

Hope you get that w.teeth pain sorted. Nothing worse than toothache

[bob_summers]

Just looking at the HR data for that ride & on the headwind bit where I was doing all the donkey work, I was sat at 165 avg for 30 mins, so the blow-up on the last climb was a foregone conclusion really! Oh well, you live & don't learn

Sat 20/4
Leitza loop
100km

By afternoon I felt well enough to go out for an easy loop but after 3hrs I was pretty fed up. On the climbs the HR was way up for little perceived effort. Missed out on a PB by one second (over 4 mins!).

Sun 21/4
Club Run Basa Kabi via Goizueta. Plus Uitzi solo.
122km 1700m 4h32

Not a bad day out, I was pretty congested but didn't feel quite as rotten. Slow start with the guys, after the sign on we had a smaller group go on up to Basa Kabi, felt good enough to stretch the legs a bit up there, then after Leitza everyone headed for home. I decided to do a last climb, up to Uitzi, and got a PB at least even though the surface has been torn up by the machine that shaves the top layer off, and not yet replaced. It was pretty uncomfortable!
It's a loooong downhill from there, but the HW didn't let me have it so easy. As Saturday, faded in the last half hour and wished I hadn't added the last 20km. Caught a guy also suffering so we kept up a reasonable survival pace together.

[Alistar]

so the blow-up on the last climb was a foregone conclusion really! Oh well, you live & don't learn

Haha! I'm sure they appreciated your efforts at the finish

Oooo...nearly baby time eh? Do you know the date or is it being left to nature? Can't remember the statistic but its something like only 5% of babies are born on their due date. Which means you're more than likely to be able to finish your race on the 28th without getting a frantic call halfway through! Just joking
All the best for you and your partner anyway

[bob_summers]

Well in the end I got the mother of all fevers on Friday night, it had me worried I wouldn't see morning so I called the doc out for the first time in my life. I internet-diagnosed myself as having pneumonia which the doc thought hilarious. Just a fever and chest infection, probably from the cold I didn't really rest out a week or two ago.
Anyway, course of antibiotics and I'm feeling better but got a real kicking from it. Explains why I've felt pretty off for a while at least.
And writing this from the hospital waiting room, not sure if they'll admit us or send us home to wait a bit longer, but one thing's clear - th bike will be sitting on flat tyres in the spare room for a while yet

[kallefs]

Internet diagnosing is the only way to go, I always end up with something deadly then sleep for a night and feel a lot better. Sucks to be on antibiotics but at least it wasn't pneumonia

[bob_summers]

This little fellow arrived yesterday!

[Mr. Cleetus]

Farkin hell!!! Welcome to your new life Bob! I hope all is going well.

[ninearms]

Congratulations, mate!

[bob_summers]

Thanks guys, all went smoothly and mother and baby doing well. Thankfully I got over the fever well enough to be there, would have been gutted to miss it. He was sin nombre for a while but we finally settled on Niko.

[kallefs]

Congratulations!

[hakko]

<3 vegan babies!

[Alistar]

Congrats Bob! Yeah adds such a new dimension to ones life. Nice name too. Oh well, at least you got a good run on the training front while it lasted

[bob_summers]

thanks all With the eating-shitting-screaming machine we've had delivered, there hasn't been much time to come on here!

Well I thought I'd dip a toe back in the water today, after about a month off the bike. God it was horrible!

Fri 17/5
Goizueta OnB
70km sl-o-o-o-w

Amazing how much damage a month off does. Not just physically; looking out at the rain it took me about two hours to get motivated. Legs & lungs have shrunk, couldn't get going, wasn't comfortable, traffic seemed ultra scary, though I did feel a bit better into the 2nd hour. Going to be a slow journey back, moreso with the limited time I have now!
ANd the spring?! This time last year I was getting burnt alive in 35º sun, and this year it's hardly stopped raining, and there's snow about 400m!