Goodbye California (I'm exhausted!)

My trip to California has come to an end. My trip back home was smooth but way too long and still 2 days afterwards I'm feeling really sick and tired...

Some sort of tiredness was definitely present in last weeks training. For a couple of days midweek I felt like I was getting sick and training wasn't going well. Too bad I was still recovering a little bit on Friday when Beth, James, Katya, Paul and I headed to climb up the famous Palomar climb. I wasn’t having good legs and as a little bonus my lower back totally blew up midway on the 20+km long climb because I didn’t manage to find my climbing position in the saddle. Anyways I always love going uphill on the bike no matter how much it hurts. But now there’s one more reason for a return as I want to be able to climb well up that beast of hill!

As a whole my trip over to the US was a very good one. Excellent learning experience and it was my longest solo trip ever done. I had a good race and good training. But best of all I met lots of really nice people and I hope to see them all again sometime, somewhere! A HUGE thanks to Beth and James and the Walkers!

attached are very random pics from a mall in Carlsbad and on my bus trip through LA

C U

JH