i almost ran into a buck, two different ones last night. all i could think about was how bad that would have sucked
It is the suck, but we have taken away land and predators and in return, given gardens to feed on and protection from hunting in the form of private property and dense development so this is what you get.
So these are my legs last night, normally the left would look more or less like the right. Again, could be worse and might be worse if I wasn’t popping ibuprofen like Pearl after a race. Also, I was either naked or wearing hot pants in this picture, I will let you decide.
Actually I only took two ibuprofen yesterday afternoon and two this morning. Hardly up to post-race Pearl status, but one can only hope to achieve so much. I am not too hot on taking drugs for pain, but I did notice a reduction in swelling, so I partook again this morning. Did I mention that freebasing the ibuprofen makes it work much better? Anyways a girl at my work told me I should take 3-5 and she may have a problem as her desk is just short of a certified pharmacy. I did not take her advice.
Riding wise I took this morning off. I rode my MTB around a bit last night to see how the leg felt. Mildly irritating and I could have ridden but figured I could use the rest anyways. The current training block I am doing said I could take off today or do some cross training. I figure I will eat and trick my body into thinking it is cross training. Eating in my office has been an issue as of late as a group of cubes near me seems to be having something of a weight gaining contest. This is the same group that I won a weight loss contest with a few years ago as it was based on % of weight lost instead of just most weight loss. Since most of them are much more over weight than me, I naturally had an advantage with the % lost. I think I lost 3 pounds and still won. Fat fuckers. So now they must have completely thrown in the towel as this week has been an array of candy, bake goods, muffins and 6’ subs and it isn’t even between Thanksgiving and New Year’s yet. I plan to just watch and maybe go out and get food to put over there when there isn’t any. I already donated my extra Halloween candy, roughly 100 “fun size” pieces, which was gone by the end of the day. I am fairly certain I could put a plate of dog crap out and someone would eat it.
Speaking of fun size, the damn fun size keeps getting smaller and smaller. At one point years ago, the fun size was almost 1/3 of the normal size candy bar and something like Twix may have been like ¾ of one stick. Now the fun size Twix is like ¼ of a normal one. This seems like a pretty damn un-fun size to me. The only fun in it is eating 8 of them to equal a normal size, that is if you think opening 8 tiny little package falls into the fun category. Fun or not, I got most of it out of my house so I don’t eat it all.
So hopefully back on the bike tomorrow pending thigh swelling status.