I feel like complete crap

Monday, June 21 – Rest Day
A rest day, but I feel like hell. The head cold has arrived with a vengeance. In previous years I would get this type of cold in January or February. I teach business, mainly marketing and operations, at the Bachelors and Masters levels. The schools I teach at attract mainly students from Asia, especially China. And, as you might expect, when they go home for Christmas or Lunar New Year they often bring back some new and exotic virus. Every Year it seemed that a horrid cold would make the rounds at school just after the students returned from Asia.
Now a cold in winter is expected, but to come down with this in the summer is a travesty. Perhaps I'll just have to put it down to globalization.

 
Tuesday, June 22 – 29 kms in 1:11
I managed two laps around Stanley Park after school. While I'm not feeling 100%, when I'm riding I feel okay. I cough less and don't seem to have any trouble breathing. But I'm taking it pretty easy and not pushing too hard. The last thing I want to do is burn myself out when I'm trying to get better.

 
Wednesday, June 23 – 5 kms in 0:21
I killed my bike! Well not quite killed it, but I managed to break a spoke on the rear wheel of my road bike on the way to school. I was just accelerating away from a traffic light when I heard a pop and felt the rear wheel start to rub. One of the spokes in the rear wheel had broken at the nipple. As the wheels have a low spoke count this caused the wheel to go out of true immediately. I limped to school keeping my speed down and avoiding all unnecessary acceleration and deceleration.
To avoid any possible damage to the bike I headed home by bus and dropped the bike in for service. This truly was one of those, "I was just riding along" incidents.
Once I got home I did my 30 minutes of upper body exercises. Tiresome, but necessary.