Day 1
Day 1, done! Went up Rist with the group, group dwindled to just a couple of us, totally comfortable. Got up to the little plateau past the mailboxes, turned around to go ride with Megan for a bit, but she had already started heading down so I just caught up with her and we rode home nice and easy. Probably the best idea anyway, since I could still feel all kinds of lung nasties floating around in my chest, and I was hacking quite a bit.1:49, 30 miles, climbing at ~230w. Great start to the year!

IB SICKNASTY
Ah swine flu! Warm temperatures, lots of downtime, no school, tons of sleep, and free weight loss! All the makings of a wonderful vacation, minus the sandy beaches and plus an inability to stand, mild nausea, hacking cough, and splitting headache. 102˚ is a little warm for my tastes too.It's all Megan's fault. She brought this scourge down upon our home, infesting us all with a million tiny, angry piglets (at least that's how I picture it) who spent three days, starting Sunday night, ravaging our insides. It wasn't fun, and there were zero Mommies around to do what they do best. Except Erick, who always makes a good Mommy.But, we're getting over it now. I went back

Collegiate Mountain Bike Nationals
> Another Nationals is in the books! Megan and I just returned from Truckee, CA, host of the 2009 Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships.For those of us that race on the road and dirt, it's a very long season - I started road racing on February 28th this year. Even with some time off over the summer to go to Nantucket, and then some more due to a knee injury, I felt drained mentally and physically coming into this mountain bike season. Going to Track Nationals certainly didn't help, I felt like my legs were full of lead for two weeks afterwards. I'm convinced that track racing is akin to muscle fiber homicide, literally ripping your legs to pieces, and it takes