Fri 11/01 - Cold N Cough Day 1 - Nasal drip. Yum.
Sat 11/02 - Ignore, ride MTB
Sun 11/03 - Complete Denial. Race Ed Sanders. See former blog.
Mon 11/04 - Sick. Raspy.
Tue 11/05 - Knucklehead goes MTB with fast boy crew. I bail at 45 min. Lungs are singed.
Wed 11/06, Thursday 11/07, and Friday 11/08 - SICK, finally resting. I give up. Dammit, my cold "competitor" took down the Tillmanator. I fought. I tried. It won.
Sat 11/09 - I ride easy in woods. Goal = therapy.
Sun 11/10 - repeat.
I am still not feeling well but I'm inching back to normal health. Man, this cold sucks.
Mon 11/11 - Rest
Tue 11/12 - Easy rollers in the AM
So, many think I'm insane. Why would I push this hard especially when I'm not feeling well?
Some understand my motives.
I'd love to think I would be feeling super well by weekend and ready to race Rockburn.
Maybe I will be. Maybe I'll be at 80-85%.
Regardless, this damn cold competitor taught me a few lessons the last few weeks.
I have some great friends and colleagues who look after me. They mirror what I find hard to see.
I do need to chill more. Somehow. Ideally without a cold bug "putting me down."
I need to ride for fun more. Play dates and no goals make things fun.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Ed Sanders 11-03-13
Hmm. What I learned this week:
- racing with a chest cold is probably not the best decision but I missed racing after my Cancun long wkd trip
- racing with a cold freaking hurts even more
- racing with a cold guaranteed that I would sound like a Kathleen Turner on Monday morning. A Kathleen Turner who smoked a few packs of cigarettes and boozed it up all Weekend. Yeah seriously raspy husky voice.
Oh well. After racing with my cold, I took it easy this week....and it looks like I'm choosing to bail on this weekend's racing so that I can pursue and maybe realize some r&r. Although I foresee some mellow woods time... ;-)
Your hard headed CX racer Tillmanator!
Pix from Ed Sanders:
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Cancun
Crazy week leading up to Cancun.
Wednesday 10/23
After doing my 6A before sunrise road ride, Tracy told me my passport expired. Thankfully she had a whisper in her mind that AM telling her to pull the passports out in preparation for our trip. Emergency trip to DC in lieu of work that day. Got my passport. Sigh. Could have been much worse had I discovered that boo-boo Friday morning at the airport.
Thursday
Back to work one more day before our trip. 2:30P during a project team meeting. I fell out. From totally ok to feeling like I was going to pass out. Lightheaded. Slurred speech. Hot flashes. Cold Chills. Emergency trip to Patient First. After a few hours, I was released and cleared to go to mexico. Doc even told me to extra chill with the help of a few adult bevys. What a day? What a week? I have a habit of ignoring early warning signs from my body. T now says my body goes to extreme measures to get my effin attention.
Friday
Left house at 6:30A for our AM flight. Beltway was jammed clogged so this time it was an emergency get off the flippin' highway and take the backroads. Added an extra 30 min but made it in time to check in and relax a quick second.
Flight left and we arrived Cancun 12-1p their time. We expected a private car to have a Tillman/Pafel sign at the airport exit based on our trip last year. No sign. Tons of taxi drivers. Tons of other locals with signs for other travelers.
Emergency cell phone call (thanks to a local) to the hotel. They were showing our reservation for the trip was cancelled. ***SIGH***
At this point, we told local cell buddy to hook us up with ride to the hotel so we could speak to our Mexican friends in person and try to figure out what the @#*%^ was going on.
Told T I must stay chill or my arse was going to end up in a Mexican hospital. :-/
We arrived and the hotel was "already on the case" for us. 4 STAR mega service. 2 hand massages for each of us and 2 margaritas and we started to relax.
Just a bumpy start, wouldn't you say? Just a tad.
Friday - Saturday - Sunday - Monday AM
Cancun. While the weather was not perfect with intermittent rain and mega storms and partly cloudy skies in between, we made the most of it. The food was amazing. I had dessert with EVERY meal. I had cocktails starting very early in the day *wink*.
I made the decision early to try to do things I normally don't do. Chill. Eat. Drink. Repeat. Then Repeat again. It was nice. No more emergencies during this part of our trip.
Monday
We left the hotel around 1030A. Our quick trip quickly came to an end. At the airport about 30 min prior to boarding time, Air Tran announced that the flight was cancelled. Hydraulic hose broke. No more flights back to Baltimore (or the U.S.) that day. Emergency hose was called in and was expected tomorrow. 103 passengers. It took a little while but Air Tran did ok. They arranged buses back to Cancun and a hotel, the RIU.
While we really expected to be back in our cozy home with our furballs, we made the most of it.
We bonded with our 103 new friends at the hotel and drank Dirty Bananas while cheering the Cardinals in the World Series game.
Tuesday - extra morning
We were on the 2nd flight for Baltimore that day (1 of 2) at 2:00P. That meant we could enjoy most of the morning out in the sun. We suited up and enjoyed the first amazingly sunny day of the trip. :-)
Back to the airport by noon and this time, our flight took off. No emergencies. Thank God.
We got home around 10P. Finally! And we got Air Tran to comp us 2 more round trip air tickets.
Next Trip.
LONGER, maybe 5 nights...
And we're thinking Dominican Republic in February.
Wednesday 10/23
After doing my 6A before sunrise road ride, Tracy told me my passport expired. Thankfully she had a whisper in her mind that AM telling her to pull the passports out in preparation for our trip. Emergency trip to DC in lieu of work that day. Got my passport. Sigh. Could have been much worse had I discovered that boo-boo Friday morning at the airport.
Thursday
Back to work one more day before our trip. 2:30P during a project team meeting. I fell out. From totally ok to feeling like I was going to pass out. Lightheaded. Slurred speech. Hot flashes. Cold Chills. Emergency trip to Patient First. After a few hours, I was released and cleared to go to mexico. Doc even told me to extra chill with the help of a few adult bevys. What a day? What a week? I have a habit of ignoring early warning signs from my body. T now says my body goes to extreme measures to get my effin attention.
Friday
Left house at 6:30A for our AM flight. Beltway was jammed clogged so this time it was an emergency get off the flippin' highway and take the backroads. Added an extra 30 min but made it in time to check in and relax a quick second.
Flight left and we arrived Cancun 12-1p their time. We expected a private car to have a Tillman/Pafel sign at the airport exit based on our trip last year. No sign. Tons of taxi drivers. Tons of other locals with signs for other travelers.
Emergency cell phone call (thanks to a local) to the hotel. They were showing our reservation for the trip was cancelled. ***SIGH***
At this point, we told local cell buddy to hook us up with ride to the hotel so we could speak to our Mexican friends in person and try to figure out what the @#*%^ was going on.
Told T I must stay chill or my arse was going to end up in a Mexican hospital. :-/
We arrived and the hotel was "already on the case" for us. 4 STAR mega service. 2 hand massages for each of us and 2 margaritas and we started to relax.
Just a bumpy start, wouldn't you say? Just a tad.
Friday - Saturday - Sunday - Monday AM
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| View from our Room |
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| Skies were a tad threatening but dammit we enjoyed our beach time |
I made the decision early to try to do things I normally don't do. Chill. Eat. Drink. Repeat. Then Repeat again. It was nice. No more emergencies during this part of our trip.
Monday
We left the hotel around 1030A. Our quick trip quickly came to an end. At the airport about 30 min prior to boarding time, Air Tran announced that the flight was cancelled. Hydraulic hose broke. No more flights back to Baltimore (or the U.S.) that day. Emergency hose was called in and was expected tomorrow. 103 passengers. It took a little while but Air Tran did ok. They arranged buses back to Cancun and a hotel, the RIU.
While we really expected to be back in our cozy home with our furballs, we made the most of it.
We bonded with our 103 new friends at the hotel and drank Dirty Bananas while cheering the Cardinals in the World Series game.
Tuesday - extra morning
We were on the 2nd flight for Baltimore that day (1 of 2) at 2:00P. That meant we could enjoy most of the morning out in the sun. We suited up and enjoyed the first amazingly sunny day of the trip. :-)
Back to the airport by noon and this time, our flight took off. No emergencies. Thank God.
We got home around 10P. Finally! And we got Air Tran to comp us 2 more round trip air tickets.
Next Trip.
LONGER, maybe 5 nights...
And we're thinking Dominican Republic in February.
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