Half a year of no cycling, how does I deal with it!!??!!!

Lots of brewing and drinking of beer.....or at least that is what I would do. oh and pinball, lots

can you do other physical activities?

Walking more than a few blocks causing pain in my shoulder. So I can't run or jump, climb, basically anything that puts pressure on my right shoulder. I can't go in pools or rivers because of the surgical wound, I don't know how to swim regardless ha. What else is there to do, and cycling was the only enjoyable thing I would do.

luckily remembered that the wide-slatted wooden bridge on my commute ices up before -anything- else. got up to speed and then crossed it w/ no extra pressure on the pedals. whole thing was covered in a thin layer of sparkly ice.

took 33 seconds off my 500m swim time (9:04 to 8:31).

Damn that sucks indeed. Brewing and drinking the beers it is then. heal quickly

Today I dropped and broke my camera. Oh well, it happens.

Flip side is you get to upgrade now. :)

Exactly.

Tonight in going to my first Channukah celebration of the season. I'm an excellent Jew.

Today i did some xmas shopping and got a present for my taint, hes been asking for it for a while now

http://imageshack.us/a/img402/7462/imagesftx.jpg

Eww. I hate the idea of rubbing some cream on my taint to ride my bike. I'm not a old man.

Today I am in the airport in Costa Rica headed home after about 4 months here. Pretty sad to go but I miss home. 23 hours of traveling today is going to be a lot of fun.

i does seem like a disgusting concept to me ill be honest, but sometimes it does get uncomfortable after a while

plus everyone seems to say it helps a lot so i figured ill give it shot.

i also said id never be wearing lycra on a bike or call myself a cyclist but here i am with full blown chamois and tights and clipless shoes and 3 pocket jerseys posting on bike forums lol

I said the same thing for damn near a year. Before that I thought it was the dumbest thing in the world to have your seat level with your bars or higher, and that skinny tires and full size bikes were stoopit. And after going fixed, I said that gears were the dumbest things ever, and now I'm road bike shopping. Whoops.

Today I'm carrying the momentum from yesterday and trying to do as little as possible while taking as long as possible.

My achievement for the day might be that I managed to find a screenshot to make a new av with.

Paperboy was a pretty fun game.

or you could try this - http://www.mro.org/zmm/teachings/meditation.php

Today I set up a meeting to sell the mac.

**** YES.

Looking at your strava profile, I can totally understand that mentality as you ride (or at least record) < 20mi/week.

Try riding for a couple hours at a time and you'll find out very quickly that a chamois and chamois cream are the best things ever invented for your taint/ass.

i live in chamois cream

the only time i ever used gooch cream was for a 200 mile ride.

it helps.

cools things down too.

:)

today i sourced 8oz of amarillo hops, **** is hard to find.

Thanks for the link. Before my accident I had slowly started studying and practicing. Now is a good a time as ever to continue.

also my go to.....

I only use it for 50mi+ rides. It helps.

Sad: I've only ever actually used this stuff on cow udders... well, that and my hands. The cow udder/taint connection should never be made, however, so if I ever do go with chamois cream, it will be some overpriced stuff marketed with blatant phallic symbolism.

Rode 12.8 miles at lunch. In boxer shorts, not a good look there on my part. ow.

That is not that far, but months ago 5 miles killed me. Getting stronger, slowly.

With school and work i'm lucky if I even get one ride in on the weekends. If you checked my profile you must've seen my longest ride was 75.9 mi. Got lost and was in the saddle for nearly six and a half hours came home and taint soreness level was minimal. Sitting on my couch I barely felt like I even rode.

that is to be expected if you rode 76miles in 6.5 hours...