So are the days of our lives...
09-16-14, 11:49 AM
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Making a kilometer blurry
I think those with kids older than, say, 2 1/2 years old, will be like "yeah, whatever". It's like a Cat 5 describing their first sketchy corner in a crit to a bunch of Cat 3s or 2s or 1s or whatever. Still, though, this was my corner.
I helped with the club CX race on Saturday so I was less involved with Junior Friday (and even Thursday night) and not at all on Saturday until about 6:30 PM when I got back. At that point he wasn't feeling good, fever, etc. We have a forehead scanning thermometer which is great but sometimes the readings bounce a bit. I was a bit skeptical of the 105 degrees I kept getting.
By Saturday he was definitely still hot and in the evening, after he bounced up and down temp-wise, we gave him Tylenol. Since Junior won't take any medicine orally we don't take giving him medicine lightly. 6 PM he was 105.x, dropped to about 102, then 10 PM 105.2-105.3. Per the doctor's orders we went to the ER. 105.2 temp in the ER, taken "from the core" if you will.
Possible pneumonia based on chest x-rays, started antibiotics, etc. The nurse in the ER showed us a trick to get him to take medicine orally. We were a bit skeptical because Junior is so good at throwing up stuff he doesn't want. The nurse got the medicine down but then Junior threw it all up. I took over to give him the antibiotics (available only orally). We spent some time but it worked and he kept it down.
Monday was a wash, we spent most of the time cleaning stuff up after he got sick, or getting up to take care of him. Doc visit was the only trip out for Junior (and me). Today he seems much better, no fever, starting to laugh at things, engaged, etc. Doc told us to expect him to be much better by tonight but it seems he's ahead of schedule.
It takes me 25 min to give him 10 ml of antibiotics but he doesn't throw up. I guess in an ER that's not acceptable but here at home it's okay. Fortunately we have a little break in our schedule so nothing planned until Friday. At any rate it seems that he's good, but, man, what a long couple days.
I helped with the club CX race on Saturday so I was less involved with Junior Friday (and even Thursday night) and not at all on Saturday until about 6:30 PM when I got back. At that point he wasn't feeling good, fever, etc. We have a forehead scanning thermometer which is great but sometimes the readings bounce a bit. I was a bit skeptical of the 105 degrees I kept getting.
By Saturday he was definitely still hot and in the evening, after he bounced up and down temp-wise, we gave him Tylenol. Since Junior won't take any medicine orally we don't take giving him medicine lightly. 6 PM he was 105.x, dropped to about 102, then 10 PM 105.2-105.3. Per the doctor's orders we went to the ER. 105.2 temp in the ER, taken "from the core" if you will.
Possible pneumonia based on chest x-rays, started antibiotics, etc. The nurse in the ER showed us a trick to get him to take medicine orally. We were a bit skeptical because Junior is so good at throwing up stuff he doesn't want. The nurse got the medicine down but then Junior threw it all up. I took over to give him the antibiotics (available only orally). We spent some time but it worked and he kept it down.
Monday was a wash, we spent most of the time cleaning stuff up after he got sick, or getting up to take care of him. Doc visit was the only trip out for Junior (and me). Today he seems much better, no fever, starting to laugh at things, engaged, etc. Doc told us to expect him to be much better by tonight but it seems he's ahead of schedule.
It takes me 25 min to give him 10 ml of antibiotics but he doesn't throw up. I guess in an ER that's not acceptable but here at home it's okay. Fortunately we have a little break in our schedule so nothing planned until Friday. At any rate it seems that he's good, but, man, what a long couple days.
09-16-14, 12:14 PM
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And ugh, I'm so over the idea that bike racers are so much more badass than those pantywaist runners because they don't risk traumatic injury like we do. It just reeks of defensive machismo. It's endurance sports, people, it doesn't matter what it is because it is ALL unimportant and dorky.
09-16-14, 12:16 PM
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Jeez dude, it's the backpedaling that's annoying about this. You put "safer" in scare quotes. Everyone knows what you meant.
And ugh, I'm so over the idea that bike racers are so much more badass than those pantywaist runners because they don't risk traumatic injury like we do. It's just reeks of defensive machismo. It's endurance sports, people, it doesn't matter what it is because it is ALL unimportant and dorky.
wut?
You're annoyed because I used quotes? Running isn't safer that cycling in re: traumatic bone snappage? I don't know why you're annoyed. Who is being defensive to what?
09-16-14, 12:41 PM
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Fighting about cross already - yup, the offseason is here!
Here's a cross joke: How do you know someone races cross?
Because they suck on the road! ba dum tish
Here's a cross joke: How do you know someone races cross?
Because they suck on the road! ba dum tish
09-16-14, 01:11 PM
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What annoyed me was Fudgy being Fudgy, nothing to do with cyclocross. It's no skin off my nose what anyone here thinks about 'cross, because if they like it, awesome, if they don't like it, well, they're not invested in it, so what?
09-16-14, 01:22 PM
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I think those with kids older than, say, 2 1/2 years old, will be like "yeah, whatever". It's like a Cat 5 describing their first sketchy corner in a crit to a bunch of Cat 3s or 2s or 1s or whatever. Still, though, this was my corner.
I helped with the club CX race on Saturday so I was less involved with Junior Friday (and even Thursday night) and not at all on Saturday until about 6:30 PM when I got back. At that point he wasn't feeling good, fever, etc. We have a forehead scanning thermometer which is great but sometimes the readings bounce a bit. I was a bit skeptical of the 105 degrees I kept getting.
By Saturday he was definitely still hot and in the evening, after he bounced up and down temp-wise, we gave him Tylenol. Since Junior won't take any medicine orally we don't take giving him medicine lightly. 6 PM he was 105.x, dropped to about 102, then 10 PM 105.2-105.3. Per the doctor's orders we went to the ER. 105.2 temp in the ER, taken "from the core" if you will.
Possible pneumonia based on chest x-rays, started antibiotics, etc. The nurse in the ER showed us a trick to get him to take medicine orally. We were a bit skeptical because Junior is so good at throwing up stuff he doesn't want. The nurse got the medicine down but then Junior threw it all up. I took over to give him the antibiotics (available only orally). We spent some time but it worked and he kept it down.
Monday was a wash, we spent most of the time cleaning stuff up after he got sick, or getting up to take care of him. Doc visit was the only trip out for Junior (and me). Today he seems much better, no fever, starting to laugh at things, engaged, etc. Doc told us to expect him to be much better by tonight but it seems he's ahead of schedule.
It takes me 25 min to give him 10 ml of antibiotics but he doesn't throw up. I guess in an ER that's not acceptable but here at home it's okay. Fortunately we have a little break in our schedule so nothing planned until Friday. At any rate it seems that he's good, but, man, what a long couple days.
I helped with the club CX race on Saturday so I was less involved with Junior Friday (and even Thursday night) and not at all on Saturday until about 6:30 PM when I got back. At that point he wasn't feeling good, fever, etc. We have a forehead scanning thermometer which is great but sometimes the readings bounce a bit. I was a bit skeptical of the 105 degrees I kept getting.
By Saturday he was definitely still hot and in the evening, after he bounced up and down temp-wise, we gave him Tylenol. Since Junior won't take any medicine orally we don't take giving him medicine lightly. 6 PM he was 105.x, dropped to about 102, then 10 PM 105.2-105.3. Per the doctor's orders we went to the ER. 105.2 temp in the ER, taken "from the core" if you will.
Possible pneumonia based on chest x-rays, started antibiotics, etc. The nurse in the ER showed us a trick to get him to take medicine orally. We were a bit skeptical because Junior is so good at throwing up stuff he doesn't want. The nurse got the medicine down but then Junior threw it all up. I took over to give him the antibiotics (available only orally). We spent some time but it worked and he kept it down.
Monday was a wash, we spent most of the time cleaning stuff up after he got sick, or getting up to take care of him. Doc visit was the only trip out for Junior (and me). Today he seems much better, no fever, starting to laugh at things, engaged, etc. Doc told us to expect him to be much better by tonight but it seems he's ahead of schedule.
It takes me 25 min to give him 10 ml of antibiotics but he doesn't throw up. I guess in an ER that's not acceptable but here at home it's okay. Fortunately we have a little break in our schedule so nothing planned until Friday. At any rate it seems that he's good, but, man, what a long couple days.
09-16-14, 01:43 PM
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On the flip side cross seems more "road" than mountain bike, but I enjoyed racing mtb, at least around here at that time. I don't know but were overall skill levels and fitnesses were lower? I know I thought the intermediate races seemed more like Cat 4-5 races and I could be at the very point of a race in the intermediate category (I forget the name). With Expert it was different, they were all really fit/fast/strong Cat 2s and those riders just killed me. I rode with one and he opened my mind about big ringing some of the hills in the area, or not wasting time with picking a line with a creek crossing but just bunny hopping 90% of it and letting the tires/suspension deal with the rest. Etc. I think nowadays the technical bit would get me because I see teammates and stuff pictures on stuff that I'd have to climb off the bike to get through/over/down.
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09-16-14, 01:45 PM
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At work and it's over 100f in my work area, hotter out in the sun. I can't seem to get anything done, can't figure anything out.
I have a bunch of cars that I don't know what's wrong with. frak
I have a bunch of cars that I don't know what's wrong with. frak
09-16-14, 01:59 PM
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@carpediemracing re kids. I hope Junior feels better soon, there's no anxiety quite like the anxiety of taking your kid to the ER! Of course, as per your opening sentence, I've done it probably 10 times, including stitches, seizures, abdominal pain, broken bones, you name it.
Last time (earlier this summer) was at 2am on Saturday night/Sunday morning, which is just the crappiest possible time to be in the ER. I was waiting with my son in my lap with his displaced tibia/fibula fracture, and cops kept bringing in guys who were tourniqueted and bleeding all over the place. The triage nurse correctly put all of them in front of us. Now that was a long night.
My favorite kid story, illustrating the difference between N=1 and N>1 kids, is when we visited some friends whose first girl was about 10 months old. Our twins (our 2nd & 3rd kids) were the same age. The first morning they set up their precious angel in her special chair, served her special breakfast in her special little serving set, just like a miniature Molly Ringwald in the Breakfast Club. Meanwhile we put a plate of eggs on the floor for our twins to scrabble over like puppies, because they liked eating that way.
Last time (earlier this summer) was at 2am on Saturday night/Sunday morning, which is just the crappiest possible time to be in the ER. I was waiting with my son in my lap with his displaced tibia/fibula fracture, and cops kept bringing in guys who were tourniqueted and bleeding all over the place. The triage nurse correctly put all of them in front of us. Now that was a long night.
My favorite kid story, illustrating the difference between N=1 and N>1 kids, is when we visited some friends whose first girl was about 10 months old. Our twins (our 2nd & 3rd kids) were the same age. The first morning they set up their precious angel in her special chair, served her special breakfast in her special little serving set, just like a miniature Molly Ringwald in the Breakfast Club. Meanwhile we put a plate of eggs on the floor for our twins to scrabble over like puppies, because they liked eating that way.
09-16-14, 02:01 PM
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And re cross. It may look dumb, but believe me, it's harder than it looks. Races almost always start with a sprint, and you're basically pinned from start to finish.
09-16-14, 02:27 PM
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Different disciplines always poke fun at each other, its just in the nature of things.
09-16-14, 02:55 PM
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if cdr was able to apply even a tenth of his analytical skills to cross that he does to crit racing he could probably be damned good. from what i can tell after one race, you can make up an insane amount of time through skilled riding. yeah, it's possible to make up for some mistakes using your power, but it's hard.
fwiw, while racing cross is fun, what's even more fun is riding in the woods on a cross bike. there are some great trails in boston (right on my way to work, it's friggin perfect) and doing so is a great way to mix up the monotony of riding on the road.
fwiw, while racing cross is fun, what's even more fun is riding in the woods on a cross bike. there are some great trails in boston (right on my way to work, it's friggin perfect) and doing so is a great way to mix up the monotony of riding on the road.
09-16-14, 03:09 PM
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I think I have a Strava stalker. A guy recently started following me, and gives me kudos for EVERY ride. Commutes, warm ups, cool downs, training, group rides, races, everything.
09-16-14, 03:16 PM
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if cdr was able to apply even a tenth of his analytical skills to cross that he does to crit racing he could probably be damned good. from what i can tell after one race, you can make up an insane amount of time through skilled riding. yeah, it's possible to make up for some mistakes using your power, but it's hard.
fwiw, while racing cross is fun, what's even more fun is riding in the woods on a cross bike. there are some great trails in boston (right on my way to work, it's friggin perfect) and doing so is a great way to mix up the monotony of riding on the road.
fwiw, while racing cross is fun, what's even more fun is riding in the woods on a cross bike. there are some great trails in boston (right on my way to work, it's friggin perfect) and doing so is a great way to mix up the monotony of riding on the road.
09-16-14, 03:58 PM
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ME BEING ME!
Actually, I think Grolby probably is an oversensitive short guy who thinks I was somehow denigrating something he likes? What's with short guys?!
09-16-14, 04:00 PM
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Are you sure it's not the cycling cap and "doing base rides" instead of summer races!
I've had much caffeine today, if you all can't handle minimal teasing it is not my fault.
09-16-14, 04:06 PM
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09-16-14, 04:08 PM
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Lol.
Umm, did they even know what cross was before they decided to sponsor it??
I think heckling and beer spraying (wtf) are essential to cross. And tutus.
Giro respects all competitors and encourages spectators to reject heckling, beer spraying, and other inappropriate behaviors
I think heckling and beer spraying (wtf) are essential to cross. And tutus.