Been awhile

After two week layoff and some bruised ribs I finally got a ride in last night.
I rode with the no drop group, to check my ribs out, which was led by Lowell and way to fast and too long for a no drop.
After Lowell incorporated the long route into our ride I took Aaron (a Tri 101er) back on a short cut. She was very tired and it was also a good excuse for me to shorten my ride.
Anyway, ribs - not too bad. Pain the whole way but bearable except when I got out of the saddle to hump it up a hill.
The combination of pulling down with my arms while my legs were pushing my body up was too much. So no blistering
hill climbs in my near future.
I tried swimming after the ride. Used a pull buoy ( I would have drown with out it) and made it only 50 yards. I had to use a ladder to get out of thepool.
HH100 in 9 days - spooky. I will just have to do what I can do.
FYI. Last week on vacation in Colorado my two boys (17 & 18) and I took the ski lift to the top of the mountain and rode “downhill” bikes on a “upper intermediate” trail down the mountain. There were no green trails. I crashed in the first 100 yards and bounced off a banked curve with my side. No breath, lots of pain, the only thing that I knew was that I was not going to die. So after some recovery time we head down the hil agian. Even the boys were impressed with how difficult the trail was which scared me even more. It took us over an hour to get to the bottom. Therefore bruised ribs.