He's got legs and he knows how to use them?

Wow, a day of stress, as outlined above, and then an hour of riding.
That hour was just about the best I've ever felt on the bike (the past two days have actually both been awesome). I was laying down some numbers, for some periods of time, that I haven't seen before. To take a quote I heard from Decanio, that he heard from Hincapie after he ripped up the prologue, "I felt like there wasn't a chain on the bike".
It was great.
I'm a little scared that I'm not going to be able to onto the legs until Friday, but I'm trying my hardest to follow DC's advice and go into this a little off peak and totally rested, maybe a little too rested, so that I'm not blown out by the end of the first week and on the down-slope of fitness.
If I'd know that all I had to do to get faster was go to some bigger races, gut out a few days I thought were going to kill me, and viola hard legs, I'd have done it long ago.I guess 44 races so far this year are doing some good-It's actually as many as I did all of last year...in July. I think I'm on pace for 80 or 90.
Also, on a side note, today would have been my first anniversary if I'd gotten married as planned. Last year, when the scheduled day came, I'll admit it was quite tough on me. A year later, I felt pretty neutral about it. I don't mean to sound callous, because it is in my mind, but I don't have the same emotional response or palpable sadness (although,last year I had a tough time exactly pinpointing the source of what made me so sad about the situation, as I still felt it was the best decision). I do know that if I was married right now, my life would be, to say the least, very different. I wouldn't be out chasing a dream with no job, no security, no real income. Often when I'm out riding and I look around at the country side around me, I start thinking about a life of rambling, moving about the countryside as I please, drifting from place to place and chasing the sun over the horizon. Maybe that longing another generation would call "wanderlust" would have eventually overcome any settling instinct, maybe it wouldn't, but its free to reign now. Living off the grid wouldn't be the worst, would it?