Almost a month later here I am again. Now I'm on spring break from teaching. I don't know if you can really call it spring break as nothing has changed with the exception of less annoyance of work related content and constant emails. I originally had a trip planned with my buddies for our 40th birthdays but that never happened. I waited long enough to have the airline start calling me as flights were getting cancelled and I had the choice to get a voucher for the value of the ticket or a full refund. Given the thought that the airlines might go out of business I took the refund. I'll book again later if/when this gets rescheduled. We're looking at trying again next April. In lieu of that I've tried to take this week and decompress a bit and just do whatever I need to do to recharge and make the best of this whole situation. I've done some riding, lots of yard work, lots of garage cleaning, lots of playing with the kids, lots of beer drinking, and lots of backyard trail building.
On Tuesday the weather seemed to be the best of the week so I figured I'd go for a long ride. I wanted to see what all the hubub was about this coronavirus chest tightness was so one of the first corners i hit after the deluge of rain we had on Monday put my ass on the ground hard. As I went down on my side I folded my arm in and compressed my ribs. I felt everything crack like I was cracking my knuckles. It was not a good sound, but I got up and I was a little sore but nothing bad. My collarbone was intact and everything else was working so I pressed on. 4.5 hours later and a bunch of conservative riding later, I finished up a pretty sweet 5 hours on the mtb. It was good to get out and clear my head a bit especially with all that is going on right now.
I thought Tuesday night would be miserable with the sore ribs but I was wrong. I slept well and woke up a little achey but nothing too bad. Wednesday night the same, and last night the same. I've cracked/bruised ribs before so I know this is going to take a while but they are still sore today. Mostly it's just an annoyance but every now and then I move in a manner that my ribs don't want me to and it reminds me that I'm still a little dinged up. The main thing I've been doing is just staying active/moving. I've been doing lots of leave raking which always sucks, but I'm getting stuff done and it's helping ribs.
I got out to ride yesterday and I was definitely tired from Tuesdays ride but any time on the bike was good. With this chilly weather I'm definitely pushing myself to get out and ride when I'd rather be warm inside or staying warm doing work on the property. It doesn't help that I checked the weather in St. George UT and it's been in the mid/upper 70's all week when I should have been there...oh well. I'm hoping to get out this afternoon, Sat afternoon, and Sunday morning to finish off the week. Riding the dirt has been good but the body is a little beat up. 2 of these rides will probably be road/gravel and the other MTB.
The last fun update is that april 5th I was supposed to be going to race the Stoopid 50 in virginia and like everything else that was postponed. I had a hotel booked and I went to check on the reservation the week leading up to the race and the reservation was gone. I booked through hotels.com so I had no confirmation that it was cancelled and no listing of the booking weird. I called the hotel and made sure they had no reservation for me and they said no they had zero bookings. Yesterday I check my credit card statement and sure enough there is a charge on there for the hotel stay. WTF? Now I'm going to go and dispute the claim and get my money back. I hope this was just an oversight but I wonder how many people this has happened to and no one has realized.
