Course correction

I've spent the better part of a week fretting about my rapidly decaying fitness — real or imagined — while trying to keep the hacking cough at bay. Along the way, I've been thinking about the race schedule and how things will work out once we get rolling for real here in a few weeks.

And then looking at projects and expenses coming down the line ... yeah, something's going to have to get switched. The main focus of the first half of the season was the Quad Cities weekend — specifically Snake Alley. It would fall in the middle of three straight weeks of racing, which means three straight weekends out of the store, which means three straight weekends of filling up the 'ol Camry and trucking out of town.

As of this morning, gas is $3.45/gallon. I don't see that going down anytime soon. Also, the busier we get, the more I need to be in the store.

So we have a course correction. The week after Snake Alley is the Norfolk weekend, which will also ... somehow ... serve as the Nebraska state road and criterium championships. Having good form for both races wouldn't be a bad idea. By essentially missing a week (I feel pretty awesome right now, by the way), I can push the start of Build 1 back a week (to this coming Monday) and be on target for the Norfolk weekend.

That means I'll be (hopefully) rounding into form around the Lincoln weekend (May 21-22) and pretty fast a few weeks later. And in the process, I'll save a couple hundred dollars by not trekking across Iowa. Yes, the racing would be great and it would only be a benefit in terms of experience, but there are bigger fish to fry, unfortunately. It'll be around next year.

And now ... I need to find my razor. I have a pretty good case of wookie sticks going.