May 17th (Afternoon)
· Fluids Intake
o Morning: 1 bottle of Gatorade, 1 cup of coffee and 2 bottles of water
o Afternoon: 2 bottles of water
· Food Intake
o Morning: 2 pieces of whole grain toast with butter and peanut butter
o Afternoon: 2 tuna sandwiches, 1 banana, 1 chocolate pudding
No ride home today!
A combination of my head cold along with monsoon rains, thunder and a spectacular display of lightening (OK, I’m exaggerating about the rains of course, but it was a heavy downpour for sure) kept me from riding home. Corrie was coming up to Aberdeen to pick up some pictures and get some stuff at Wal-Mart, so I jumped on the opportunity and got her to pick me up.
So no report, other than the fact that my cold isn’t getting worse, so that’s a really good sign right now!
May 18th (Morning)
· Fluids Intake
o Evening Before: 1 medium cup of coke, 1 glass of water, 1 Dr. Pepper
o Morning Of: Nothing
· Food Intake
o Evening Before: 1 Big Extra (no cheese or bacon), 1 medium fries, 3 Mennonite cookie things, 1 cinnamon bun, 1 hamburger bun toasted with butter and peanut butter
o Morning Of: Nothing
Yeah, we broke down and ate at McDonald’s last night. I can’t remember the last time we did that, but it wasn’t good! :) Sure, the food tasted good, but I felt cruddy all evening after that. Then, finally when I started feeling better, I felt like I was suddenly starving (hence the binge eating last night).
As I’m still fighting off this cold, I opted for another light ride again this morning. I took just the paved streets to Lansdowne with still a respectable time and I actually felt pretty good considering last night’s eating parade! Then again, I only had a light ride yesterday too with no riding home, so physically I’m not that tired right now either. I rode the bus again all the way up to Rogers Way and made it up the Hugh Allan hill probably as good as yesterday. I felt really good, and probably pushed it harder than maybe I should’ve considering this is supposed to be a light ride! My time was 12 minutes from Rogers Way to work, which was my best time set only once before. So that’s cool.
I am feeling pain in some new muscles in my legs these last two days. I’m thinking they are my “pulling” muscles, now that I have the clipless pedals. I read online that the pulling action does indeed use a different set of muscles than pushing, so I think they’re telling me that they don’t appreciate their rude awakening! :)
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