The last time I was in for a medical procedure (OK, a colonoscopy) the monitor alarm kept going off because my HR was too low.

I am looking forward to my next colonoscopy by the way. I haven't had drugs that good since the 70's.

we were talking about colonoscopy on today's ride. Then they beat me up and now I am bed ridden. I don't think I'm a very good rider right now.

I went to sleep at 7 pm last night. Then got up for an hour or so around midnight, and went back to sleep. Now I go to work. Yay.

Interesting.

(SIGH) You dissapoint me, we are on BF, do I need a point? and also I didnt say it was a bad thing. Just creeeeeeeepy. We ARE here in the addiction thread....... can it GET any better?

What do ya mean? .......... We gat both kinds of music...... Countrty and Western!

I know I was trying to point out that what he is describing I would call flat so I can't imagine what actual Fl is like.

I can't believe they drug you....what a wussie

Bedridden from a bicycle ride? I've never heard of such a thing.

it's true. my legs feel like lead. They have no strength in them at all and I've been lying here watching the football since I got back.

i knew I would be dropped like a sack of potatoes on every hard climb and if my companions are waiting for me on these or easing off after climbs, I went to the front at most other times and pushed the pace so I never got a chance to ease up.

Ah, I see what you did there, now that it is pointed out to me.

Remember, recovery is just as important as training. If your buds are waiting for you, they must believe that with some work you will be riding with them at some point. Keep at it.

If you're working to keep up on the hills, that certainly makes sense.

Or, they felt sorry for him and would feel guilty leaving him alone in the ditch to die.

Good point about recovery. My improvement has been noticeable every week. Even though they wait, on most occasions they aren't stopped just spinning easily until I catch up and unlike previous weeks I'm not wiped out at the top of the steepest hills needing to rest so I can shift up and push ahead. I give it 3 weeks before I'm right with them.

I have a suspicion that in the battle of the freds working on promotion to road nazi ranks, I am ahead of velo.

I'm not bedridden.

ouch. this is how you treat a man in agony?

hey velo

i think i got that college football line wrong. he gave me a dirty look and then moved the topic on to his colonoscopy, just like pcad in this thread.

Either you botched my talking points or he is a clueless sports fan like Pcad.

i think i got the acronyms wrong

Good Nyack today, although I forgot about Housatonic Hills, so a bunch of the big guns were absent. Better for me. I had three goals:

• To not crash
• To make to the base of Hook Mtn (final climb) with the bunch
• To not be DFL going up Hook

Accomplished all three. Felt better than I thought it would, dropped a couple of guys I can't stay with when I'm in bad shape and hung with a couple of guys who are pretty fit up that final climb. Happy with all of that. Average speed for the entire 47 miles on the Ptap was 21.2, but that included 10 miles before and after the ride that were at 17-18, my guess is the Nyack Ride portion had to average 22-23 today.

unless you are bedridden, you didn't ride hard enough.

Incorrect, particularly considering this was after 116 miles and 7500' of climbing the day before.