Base 2 Space day

So the day before the Base2Space ride, I grab Cooper from the office and we head up to Stevens Pass to rip a few last laps at the bike park as it was closing weekend.  The first two lap we did it was nice out, but chilly.  The next two we got rained on, and then the last two we got snowed on.  Yes, SNOW at the end of September.  Needless to say I was chilled, wet, and dirty.  I took a long ass shower at the cabin and back to Seattle we went. 

October 1st I woke feeling kinda wonky.  I don't really know how to describe it other than I was off, but fuck it, it was the big day at the Space Needle and we had the whole office along with some special outliers.  Dan Brisse showed up to run the needle, Logic and Joe Neese were in, Joe Neese, Cheryl Meuller was there and she had just lost her husband Nick to brain cancer.  Off we went, up the needle with all sorts of times.  Mac ripped 832 stairs in 6 min 35 seconds and was the 24th fastest of 2,000 or so people up the needle.  Brisse finished in the top 18.  Me, shit....I snuck up there in a fat and furious 13 minutes plus.  Up top the team celebrated OUR top fundraising victory as well as individual top spot too. 

A week later I was at SCCA looking like this.  The coldness of the biking combined with the over exertion of the climb on my weaker immune system cashed me in.  Pneumonia was the diagnosis.   I was out of the office for over a week, had allergic reactions to some of the meds and thought some nights before I put my head down on the pillow that I wasn't going to wake up.  Even with the chemo and transplant, I don't think I had ever been that fucked up in my life.  

Thanks Bro...That pretty much sums it up. Tried to do good, did good, then over did good and got served up. ThNX BRO!