I am recovering from being sick, for almost 10 days. It's just getting on my nerves. While it didn't morph into the dreaded bronchial complications, I swear, I felt worse than the last time I was sick, when it did. Of course, this occured right before a planning weekend trip. The weather looked awful, so we didn't bring our bikes. I was secretly jumping for joy, as I never could have done a 40 mile ride with a 4 mile climb. It did rain Friday, but yesterday was gorgeous. We ended up going to Mt. Greylock, where we did a modified type of hike of about 5 miles. No hike to the summit; we did 2 miles on a trail and about 2.7 on a dirt road with a steady 2-3% grade that led to an overlook that was worth it. Then we drove to the summit. I definitely feel better today, but I am going to make myself do no exercise until at least Tuesday. I don't even have 800 miles ridden this year, it's depressing. It's been at least 8-9 years since I did't have at least 1,000 miles by July 1.