I am pleased and relieved that you have some of your Hero's blood in your veins. I suspect the problems are going to get worse before they get better so you'd better batten down the hatches to keep that lunch of your's dry while you eat it.

But seriously, you can improve performance even in these difficult times if you take a positive approach to the problems. Experiment on your own and read round these threads (nuggets of useful advice buried in these here hills).

And the weather here is to die for which, given the current paranoia over the SARS outbreak, is not to be taken too literally.