It's just water weight. Same thing happens to me. Take a Pamprin and you'll be fine.

well done.

It is. In fact it is only a couple of weeks away from winter.

Wow - you live in Minnesota, too?

Actually a smothering cream of some sort was needed..

It's either winter there or winter is right around the corner...I don't get it. Are there armed guards at the borders?

That explains some of your posts...

...Coffee Is Good For You

...when I lived there, we took great comfort in the fact that there were no poisonous snakes.

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....but honestly, I consider the rattlesnakes I see here all the time on the bike trail to be a pretty fair trade off.

Oh yes, the rest of the country is just petrified in fear. They're everywhere. When is the gubment going to do something about all these snakes?

I guess that's a positive although you really probably don't spend a great deal of time outdoors there..least I wouldn't ..

...it's a mistake to not go outside and do stuff in the coldest parts of the winter. You start drinkin', and next thing you know a couple of years have slipped away.

If you get out and ski, and go ice fishing, and skating, you still drink, but you seem to burn it off and it damages you less. The important thing is the drinking.

I cannot tell you how many times a beer and a bump kept me from eating a bullet in the short day months.

What was the question?

Comforting, but untrue.

The bad weather keeps the riffraff out.

Minnesotans love the outdoors. The BWCA is one of America's great canoeing destinations. There's hunting, fishing, ice fishing, xc skiing, snowmobiling, cycling, fat biking, gravel cycling, snowshoeing, skating, ice hockey (yes, outdoors in winter) and more. In fact, water skiing was invented in Minnesota.

I just came home from a very long and busy day at work, followed by a very short and slow 2.2 mile run.

Did I miss anything?

I think they are terrible for the type of riding I do, except in very off-season and/or hours.

But I still encourage them as they get the sedentary folks moving at least. Anything that gets people to ride is a good thing.

There is actually a popular mup/bike path near my house, I want to try riding on it at night, when it would be deserted, but my wife forbids it as she thinks it's not safe.

We haven't had a photo theme for a while. How about outdoor bathroom fixtures.

nope. southern hemisphere.

...I suspected as much, but I needed something, you know ?

...yeah. We feel the same way about the long, hot, dusty summers here in the Central Valley in California. The undesirables all head for the coast.

Team mate I ride with a lot likes to ride those to and from rides and on recovery days.

I hate them... bumpy from tree roots, lots of debris, dogs, joggers, rollerbladers, etc.

This came today, thanks rjones!... serving suggestions?