Day of healing.

off in search of the bottom of the Never Ending Hill... Mission was a failure. I was flying along and feeling great. I was at mile 32 and had yet to take a break. Just 6 more miles till I planned to turn around and head back home....time for a drink...then....my add-on water bottle cage got out of wack, hit my pedal, I looked down just as the pavement got real uneven (the recent floods have undermined many road shoulders around here)...and down I went. For the first time in my adult life I fell off my bike. Of course I pick the week before the century ride to do this. I was bleeding real good. Out in the middle of nowhere. Jumped up and rode 8 miles back up the hill before finding a place to stop. Called my husband and borrowed some peroxide and bandages. It took over half an hour for my husband to get to me. I was all crazed so it took another half hour to get the bike on the car rack...and I got in on there wrong so it scratched the pain off the trunk in two places. Got to the university health center a good 2.5 hours after the fall. The treated me as triage so I got in pretty quick. There's a nice chunck missing from my left knee and a huge patch of road rash around that but there wasn't enough unshredded flesh for them to sew up so I am still bleeding a bit. Now there is a good chance I will miss the century if this doesn't heal super fast. There's still so much crap in the wound it looks black. Argh.

Quality over quantity with today's cycling.

Missing: One giant orange orb Last seen: Hanging in the sky in July Reward: Eternal appreciation For Sale: Gray clouds with lots of precipitation Price: Free to a good home

Taking it easy today. Had to take my migraine meds yesterday and after the pain went away I had bad facial twitching. Pain started Saturday afternoon and had some facial twitching that night. Head hurt for the first 10 miles of yesterday's ride but improved until the end. Once the ride was over it slowly came back until about an hour after medicating. Trigger could be increased stress of the academic year starting while trying to get my book to the publisher, put together something befor the conference submission deadline, start the job search, and work on the dissertation while training for the century. Or the trigger may have been the 4 caffinated Gus I used on Friday. I was fine after the first one but felt a bit more crazed with each additional one. Since I have been caffiene free for years now this may have been too much for the body to handle.

Got in a good ride this morning despite having a mild migraine and only 4 hours of sleep. Legs felt great. No adverse side effects from the 70miler on friday.