Well, not really, but it gets frustrating when your luck doesn’t hold out.  Many of my coworkers had been sick the past couple of weeks.  I was hoping to escape, but I guess I couldn’t.

I was pretty excited when I packed up the car Friday night for the Garden Prairie 40K TT the next AM .  My motivation had come back during the past week and my legs were feeling good.  With decent weather expected for Saturday AM, I wanted to end the MATTS series on a high note.  Well, things didn’t go the way I planned.

I woke up Saturday AM with the chills and sore throat.  Great.  Probably not  a good idea to do a 40K TT.  I went back to bed and woke up later that morning.  I was disappointed, but happy I didn’t a race.  A 40K TT can wipe you out for days.  I also know I would have been upset with a bad performance. I was feeling better, but far from 100%.

I got a good indication of my bug when I went for an easy run in the afternoon.  My heart rate was close to 190 bpm even though I was only averaging a little over 7:00/mile pace.  My usual HR for this pace would be about 170 bpm.  Yikes, that’s a significant difference.

To make things even more frustrating, my peroneal tendonitis has been getting worse and I’m starting to think I’ve got a torn tendon.  Well, at least it’s the end of the TT season.

Ironically, I did have some luck this weekend.  After biking home 15 miles in a downpour from volunteering at my team’s CX race, I came back outside to put my bike away only to find a flat front tire.  I must have gotten a puncture just a few blocks from home. Whew…the was lucky.