Socked-in

Well, the cold, blizzard conditions are here. It's now -30C out there and the temp is rapidly falling. Can't even get outside for a quick run. Heck, running to the car is bad enough. I suspect I won't be getting outside much at all tomorrow. Thank goodness I've got that computrainer!

I learned today that a good friend, Talimena Tammy, will be joining us at Triple Bypass. Wow, what a great group of people that are going to be there! I'm looking forward to seeing alot of my "old bikejournal buds" and meeting some new ones. I've noticed that there's alot of people I've never met from bikejournal that are planning on being there.

My diet today was pretty good - not great, but good. I'm hoping for a new "low" at tomorrow's weigh-in.

Also had a Dr. visit today to get my "smeller" checked. For those who don't know, I have no sense of smell. Lately I've also developed some infection problems and after a really hard work-out sometimes the mucus build-up in the back of my throat constricts my breathing bad enough that it's really hard for me to breathe. Well, the news wasn't good.

I will probably never regain a sense of smell. Dr. suspects that I contracted an infection while younger and it damaged the "smeller organ" - sometimes it heals, sometimes it doesn't. Doesn't look good for me.

On the hard-time-breathing after a hard-work-out issue, he figures it might be able to be fixed by more humidity. (Southern Alberta is really a desert) In other words, sorry, there's nothing we can do about that, either. Not a big deal, I generally only feel that crappy after a really hard indoor ride.