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AND I burned my toast … black, like my soul.

Although I lost four days at the end of last week to persistant back problems, I’m back on the horse and training pretty hard this week. Not that hard, but quite hard. Somewhat hard. So physically I feel like crap again, tired legs all the time and I am back to carrying around my normal sour disposition. And the weather has gone back to sucking, so life is pretty much back to normal here in Colorado Springs.

Of course, it sounds like I am not-so-subtly complaining. But I’m not: if I were really complaining, I’d kvetch about the yahoo who backed into me in a parking lot last Friday, leaving me a bit shell shocked and with a lap full of window. But that turns out not to have been too bad. His insurance company has set me up in a nice rental car (really! a Hyundai Sonata, which I really like, except for the fact that it is baby blue) while the good folks at the body shop put a new door (and window, hopefully) on my car. This is silver lining city for me, as I should have the car back in a week or two, and in the meantime the rental car is comfortable and warm. And thank god for that, because the thing that’s the real pain is the cold, rainy, crappy weather!

Or I would bitch about having lost four full days of training just when I was starting to feel normal again after a couple of very hard races. But that even had the tremendous upside of letting Steph and I go visit her parents in Boulder over Easter, and giving me a great excuse not to go for a three hour bike ride in the SLEET we had that weekend!

Really, life is pretty much grand for me right now. I’ve learned to accept the constant physical fatigue as a necessary precursor of better fitness. There are still some times when it’s hard not to let that fatigue creep into my head, but for the most part I can be happy and energetic without necessarily having the energy to, say, walk briskly up a flight of stairs. The crap weather has got to go though. Ugh!