Zimmer frame anyone??

  My body continues to implode.....

 Blimey, long time since I’ve felt this ill.  My wife has just started to go down with the same thing, so she’s a week or so behind me.  There seems to be a lot of  it about – lots of  my cycling chums seem to be a bit under the weather.

  Symptoms currently include:

•   Tiredness
•   Sore throat
•   Horrible taste in my mouth
•   Sore shoulders & knees
•   Sharp pain in my liver (I think)
•   Throbbing kidneys
•   Sore soles of my feet
•   Knotted calf muscles
•   Oh, and bright green poo!

  But apart from that, I feel fine!  I said this before but I really was stupid trying to race last week.  Never mind.

  This isn’t going to shift in a hurry so I’ve abandoned all cycling for the time being.  I’m off on hol in a couple of weeks so I’ll take it easy until after then and try racing again when I get back.  Next race entered is the API Metrow 25 on 14/7.  I’ve pulled out of everything else until then – waste of time even turning up at the moment.  In a way, having a nice break mid-season might prolong my season a bit.

  I took the doggies on a six mile walk yesterday afternoon and it nearly crippled me!  I’m really worried that all my hard work dieting will be ruined if I don’t stay fairly active.  Perhaps I’m better off resting and just starving myself!

  I finish teaching at college on Friday and then I’ve pretty much got the whole of the summer off  so a couple of weeks of lost training / racing shouldn’t be too hard to recover from.  

  So, for the next couple of weeks this might become a Dog Walking and Beer Drinking blog.  (Well, Euro 2012 is on after all!)