Busy week, first a walk in the Minuteman National Park. After a sleepless night in the Element Hotel in Lexington. We needed some fresh air and energy for the drive back to Conway.
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Why did we not sleep? Some other hotel guests thought that a party deep into the night was not a problem, and hotel management could not stop the noise of loud-talking people walking past our hotel room all night. This is my first time having had such a bad experience in a hotel. When we got home, we did a quick afternoon nap and played pickleball for 2 hours.
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The next day did my weekly Miracle interval training. I did three sets of 30 seconds as hard as I could. The best lap was the last lap, with an average of 470 watts.
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My legs were stiff the following day, and I decided to go for a ride. I rode some local gravel to see how the roads were. Started with Nash Hill, then Wingnut, Luther branch, and Main Poland.
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The last 2 roads were in a bad state from all the rain that we had. It took a while before my muscle ache was gone, and my legs loosened up. In the afternoon played more pickleball for almost 2.5 hours.
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When waking up the next day, the muscle ache was even more severe, not just limited to my legs but my whole body, and I started getting a headache. I then realized I was getting some flu. The missed night's sleep, combined with the efforts the 2 days after, must have hampered my immune system. Fortunately, it only lasted 2 days.
On Friday, after another monsoon rain (8.5" in 8 hours), we went for a walk to check the damage. The pickleball field flooded, downtown was partially flooded, and people's basements with feets of water that needed to be pumped with a fire truck. Our basement was only slightly wet and needed wet vaccing during the heaviest rains.
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Early Saturday morning, Mac and I went for a run in a trail off Whately Rd just passed Roaring Brook road.
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After seven other pickleball players and I gathered to clean the basketball and tennis courts. About an inch of silt was left on parts of the courts from the receding water. With brooms, shuffles, and a leave blower we got it clean in 3 hours.
Later that afternoon, Mike and Sandra came over as they were riding the JAM Fund Grand Fundo as well the next day. I had signed up for the 80+ mile Adventure version, but I needed to figure out how much I was recovered and decided to ride the 53 miles Grand Fundo route with Mike. I felt great; the ride, people, and food were terrific. I did a ride report for this blog that also got posted on the NCC website. Definitely like to do that again.
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