On Bicycles, and.... what else is there?

I've been through this before: ride a hard double century, feel indestructable in the days following, fail to give my body the hard recovery it secretly craves. After Terrible Two three weeks ago, I didn't do anything overtly stupid; I even scaled back from my normal training. But despite this, after the following weekend, I was simply spent. I suspect allergies had a hand to play in this, as well, but then I think one becomes more sensitive to allergies when the adrenal system is overtaxed. And if double centuries are designed to do anything, it's overtax... At the start of the Livestrong San Jose, I was pleased with the generous support of donors to my ride. I think it helped I'm matching donations with one of my own to the Peninsula Open Space Trust, to whom I feel a huge debt for their work to preserve the lands which make the region between San Francisco and Santa Cruz such a cycling paradise. So the Lance Armstrong Foundation and Open Space were both ...