Two Days Off.

I have an excuse for taking two days off, I promise! The smoke from the local fires that broke out on Saturday was blowing directly into the San Gabriel Valle area on Sunday, leaving all of Pasadena in a soupy brown fog. I had a headache the whole day, which I thought at first might be a hangover, but soon realized got worse when I went outside. Needless to say, there was no way I was going to do strenuous activity that day.

Monday is typically a rest day for me, and although I felt a little odd about missing Sunday. I decided not to ride for three reasons: I needed to do job searching,  I was still pretty sore from Mt. Wilson and GMR, and I was worried about the smoke from the fires catching me mid-ride.