This week thus far.

Despite a crappy week training, I did score this Petzl headlamp off of Craigslist for $5!

This week has pretty much been a throwaway for my training. Monday I did my normal Monday EZ ride to recover from the weekends races.
Tuesday was a 10mile TT in the evening. My legs were still a little weak feeling (sore?) from the weekend, so I decided I would ride the TT, but not give it everything I normally do. I have adopted a high gear, low cadence TT style over the past year or so. I do pretty much all time trialling in my hardest gear and only shift if my cadence drops below 60rpm. And I DON'T get out of aero position unless necessary. I decided Tuesday night to pedal a higher, more normal cadence in a lower gear, stand on the rollers of the course to 1) see what happens and 2)make it a little easier on my legs. I was ~50seconds off of my best, which isn't super terrible, but not good either. I did learn that big gear TTing is what works best for me.
Wednesday I really wasn't feeling hill attack intervals because it was clearly going to rain, so I decided to do a good solid ~1.5hrs @ tempo. Well it started raining just about the time I got out of town, so I turned off early and got ~1hr in instead. In the rain.
Then today (Thurs)...more rain! I decided to bag it today and do some house work. I may try to get out this evening, but I have more housework to do tonight that requires supplies that I have to get after work, so it may just be a FDO (forced day off).
The air conditioner at my work has been broken all week too. I didn't really think it would bother me much, but it kind of has. Between heavy lifting, pumping tires, etc. and the general stresses of dealing w/ people, I'm totally wore out by days end from doing all this in 85+ deg heat.
So this weekend is the Muncie Endurathon and I hope to have a good fun weekend and get in a couple Muncie rides.
Next weekend I'm going to race either MTB here in Bloomington at Wapahani MTB Park or the TT State Championship up near Ft. Wayne. If the weather is bad leading up to the MTB race, Ryan and I will likely go stay w/ a friend in Muncie Saturday night and go to Ft. Wayne Sunday to TT. I don't want to race MTB in the mud again. Plus Wapahani does not dry/drain well at all so if it rains, it'll be a mess. No thanks.