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<\/p>\nSo I spent last week working in Southern Japan.\u00a0\u00a0 I was hoping to squeak in a bike ride but the rental place was out of mountain bikes.\u00a0 The weather was pretty freaking rough as well as I don’t think the humidity every dropped below 95%.\u00a0 I think that even if I would have had a bike I would have had to muster up some serious motivation to get out in the woods when it is 99 degrees out with 99% humidity.\u00a0\u00a0 So I took in a bit of\u00a0traditional and limited sight seeing during this visit.\u00a0\u00a0 I will be back for a longer period in the fall so I will get my time on the trails.<\/p>\n
Yesterday was my travel day back to the San Deigo.\u00a0 With the International Date Line in the mix, I did Sunday twice in the course of my 27 hours of planes, trains and automobiles.\u00a0\u00a0 I was pretty freaking toast by the time my head hit the pillow yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I did sleep well last night but was still dragging a bit today.\u00a0\u00a0 I decided that a lunchtime ride would help to snap the body back onto my timezone.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I decided to ride Rancho La Costa<\/a> a few miles away from Casa Del Bill.\u00a0 I also decided to ride my bike to the trailhead as I could use the extra excercise on the several intervening hills along the way.<\/p>\n I was meeting Michael (aka YetiRider) that works near the trail system and routinely knocks out a lunchtime loop out there.\u00a0\u00a0 I knew I was going to feel a little tired but was quite surprised just how freaking tired I felt\u00a0about five minutes into the\u00a0commute to the trailhead.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0My\u00a0body was quite certain it was a little before 2AM its time.\u00a0\u00a0 I made\u00a0it to \u00a0Michaels work shortly before his lunch break and we were soon hitting up the last bit of asphalt to get to the trailhead.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was feeling a bit better in that I did not feel so\u00a0fatigued by the time we got to the trailhead.<\/p>\n I climbed alright on the way up\u00a0but I certainly felt off in the way of not firing on all cylinders.\u00a0\u00a0 On the way down I realized my reflexs were more than a little off and I found myself dabbing in spots I would not normally dab in.\u00a0 It was good to be out on the bike but it was a little disconcerting to be all out of wack.<\/p>\n The pavement return back to my place drained the rest of my energy so I don’t think I really helped out the jet lag out at all today because after a shower and snack I knapped away the rest of the day.\u00a0\u00a0 It was still a good experiment.<\/p>\n![\"LaCosta-23JUL12-01\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/caac02f628296ad74298c8fa1dded144.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" "\\"LaCosta-23JUL12-01\\"")
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