I've joined the masses of flu-like victims here in rome.  The last few days I've been struggling to keep my eyes open and thus have not ran. I've limited myself to daily crunches and lots of green tea.

In the meantime, I've decided to focus my energy on looking for a team.  A club or team is necessary here in Italy as I can only do a few "international" races without one. 

There are hundreds of teams although it's difficult to even find them as most Italians are still not online and I could never join a team with bad graphic design.  :) Unfortunately, bad web design seems to be the standard around here.   

Italians are so proud of their design.  Proud of their food, their culture, their history and especially proud of the "Italian Design" pronounced "EEE-talian DEEE-Zine."  I'm proud of them too:

:D 
:D
:D
:D  
And the winner is

I needn't go on.  I've found a couple of teams nearby, clearly not listed here, but that will give me a chance to race and find running buddies.  Perhaps I should wait until I feel better: all of this bad design isn't helping.