You are furrier than I had imagined.

We have a Suggestions section where you might post this and have it considered.

Since I work from home most of the time, laundry is on me. More of my clothes go in cold delicate cycle/tumble-dry low than Mrs. rjones28's.

:innocent:

We have a suggestion box at work.

Maybe I'll put it there, too.

Nearly all of the other things I need to do off the bike are out of bounds, based on my recovery restrictions. :(

The good news is that I'll have more time to post on BikeForums. ;)

I wore out the battery on the shaver they used to prep me for surgery. :)

Ah, so your thumbs have overlapping ranges. Hell, if you could split the kb, might as well do something like a 70/70 split, with mid-kb keys on both sides - that would take care of that.

Do we have resident Addiction programmers to get crackin' on this if it doesn't exist already?

Yeah, TBH I couldn't think of anything either.

Does this mean that you can't even wrench on your bikes? "But Doc - what if I keep things under 5Nm?"

Well, I will say this: some people do use their nose the way some other people use their thumb...if you know what I mean.

So weird.

Something similar happened to me recently. Gurney. Liquid injection. When I woke up someone had swiped the lenses right out of my eyes! Put fake ones in their place. And then I had a Starbucks.

A boy and his dog.

Crush some souls, [MENTION=140600]LAJ[/MENTION]

I specifically asked the surgeon about that. She said no way. At least not until she's assessed my progress in a couple of weeks.

BTW, I've already been down to the bike shop. Doc did say that I should walk around. :)

Happy hernia day, Jonesey. Get well soon!

Oof - that's rough.

Rain has let up... an hour and a half before my dad is scheduled to visit to drop off Easter goodies for the grandkids. I hope the weather holds 'til they're gone, I'd at least like to get in a short ride but, looking at the hourly forecast, I'm not going to hold my breath.

This was me with the eye surgeon.

Can I race my bike? Not for awhile.
Can I ride my bike? You can't crash.
Ok no mountain bike. Can I ride my road bike? Not on the road.
Ok trainer only. Can I ride my TT bike on the trainer? No you have to be upright.
Ok so you're saying I can ride the road bike on the trainer? Yes.
How hard can I ride? Easy.
Ok I can only ride the road bike on the trainer below threshold? I guess.
For how long? Until I say otherwise.
Ok but approximately when will you say otherwise? One week for some of it, one month for others.
Ok road bike on the trainer riding sub threshold efforts for one week. Got it.

Lol at least the guy is a mountain biker so he had some idea of what I was talking about.

Thank you all. TT ended in the walk of shame. Hit a huge pothole in the middle of a downhill corner. It could have been spectacular but it ended my TT. Crit is next.

Good you're ok rjones!

Went out to scout the state TT course, which is a big rectangle. Five legs because you ride the entire rectangle and then you ride the first part of the rectangle again.

Road surface is just kind of jarring and it gets to you after awhile. There's big angry dogs who chase you and could seriously kill you. So it's not a "fun" place to ride.

I wasn't sure how to pace things today, in light of riding so hard yesterday. I figured I go lope around for an hour at 90% or thereabouts.

But once I started riding, I felt pretty good so I just kept ramping it up, TT-style. Strategically (because it's a headwind leg), you want to put the most power into leg 3. And then leg 5 you're heading uphill to the finish, so another place you want to put out strong power. Ergo, I adopt the strategy of going a little easier on leg 4, to rest after leg 3 while simultaneously gathering strength for leg 5.

Things were going so well. I'm feeling a little lactic acid in the legs but nothing unmanageable. Then I get onto leg 4 and the "rest" feels so good that I start to rationalize just riding the four legs and skipping the fifth, I'll have covered the entire course that way. Haha once that kind of thinking enters your brain during a TT effort it's all over. You can't even think about stopping because stopping is so much pleasanter than continuing.

So in the end, I did four of the five legs. But I managed a 97% effort for 50 min, that's the longest TT interval I've done in almost a year. Happy enough with it, I'll get back out for a scout (in a rested state hopefully) before the state TT next month.

And I wasn't killed by a dog. Always a win.

Flatted?