Well…feel quite out of sorts this morning and I’m not sure why that would be…slept okay last night and I really don’t hurt too much so that is a welcome development…part of that is not doing 30 miles yesterday and taking it easy on the short ride that I did…okay, and the ibuprofen I took last night but I needed that for the pain in my neck that would have kept me up all night…need to make sure that I don’t let that be a habit so I think I’ll skip it this evening no matter how much pain I’m in…and I think I’ll have to do the same thing with the red dots that I take for my allergies since I’ve had them for 3 days now and I do have to think about my BP…didn’t get anything done yesterday but I do need to cook today since I used up all of the leftovers I had in the fridge…have been thinking about making some Alfredo for a couple of weeks now and today may be the day…but, I have some thighs thawing that need to be used, too, so I’ll have to think about that….more later…

Well….just can’t get started today and there really is no reason for it other than I burned myself out yesterday on the bike and I’m still feeling it this morning…slept okay last night but was up at 5 again today even after not hitting the sack until almost midnight…that might be one of the reasons I’m so wiped out this morning…or I’m just getting old but I can’t accept that I’m going to feel this way forever…maybe the second or third cup of coffee will help…I am still thinking about taking the day off the bike but that will be harder than going out so we’ll see…maybe just a leisure ride to take a look at the scenery…but, that won’t happen until this afternoon since there is an F1 race on in a while and then Man U plays their last game at 10 so I think I’ll take a relaxing morning and just read some….had coolant on the top of the overflow tank again today so that will be a project for tomorrow to find out where it’s coming from but it should be an easy one…not much to do today…need to continue to work on the bathroom but with my energy level so low, that may not happen….more later…

Well…as you know, I have been doing 30 miles a day on the bike for the past 9 days but with the rides today, that is enough…I can’t remember tougher rides that these today and my legs, neck, and shoulders are screaming in pain that just continues to get worse as every day goes by…I guess an old body just can’t take the abuse. It was torture out there today with the wind blowing almost 20 mph but I survived the first one okay…the second one, not so much…I should have known that it was going to be bad when I was hobbling just to get to the bike in here and had trouble carrying it up the stairs…by the time I got out a half mile I was struggling so badly that I almost turned around but, because I am an idiot, I kept on and pushed through til I got back here. The way I feel right now, I will need an off day tomorrow to try to heal up some and I am trying to tamp down the guilt by reminding myself that I’ve done enough miles in the past 9 days to carry me to the end of the month…but, I would like to get to the goal of 500 miles for a month for the first time so that means more 30′s to make that happen…yeah, I know…I’m an idiot…

Well…I wonder if 3:34 is a new record for getting up for me? Okay, I didn’t really get up then but I was awake then and barely got back to sleep before I got out of bed at 6 or so…pretty damn tired right now and I think part of that is going 8 days of 30 miles per on the bike…there has to be some fallout from that since I’m not young anymore but I’m not too sore so maybe another one today…it’s going to depend on the temp and when it comes up enough to get out with the frost happening out there right now… and yesterday was pretty brutal with the wind blowing almost 20 all day…had a weird leak of coolant in the car yesterday where the top of the overflow tank was covered with coolant and there is no way that should be…checked the hose that goes to it and everything else but couldn’t find any reason it would be there…will have to wait until I run it and get it hot to check to see what that is about….at least it going to something simple to fix when I find it…didn’t get anything else done yesterday but I do want to do the bathroom today and maybe a little kitchen cleaning, too, but I’m not sure about that…more later….

Well…just got back from my 8th day of 30 mile rides on the bike and I really can’t figure out why I’m doing it…you know I have the most well developed sense of guilt of anyone I know…guilt about what I eat, guilt about spending money, guilt about almost everything and it appears that my guilt has caused a paradigm shift in my thinking about riding the bike. It started out just doing one double just to see if I could do it and to see how much damage it would do…then, the second day, I felt okay and the weather was nice so I thought why not? Let’s do another one…and that led to day three, four, five, six seven and eight…the first 7 was to get to a goal but I met that yesterday…and today I went out early for the first time and froze my fingers and toes in the cold and brutal wind…so, I was going to skip this afternoon…after all, I had ridden a lot more than normal all week….but, I just couldn’t do it…no matter how inviting the couch was, or how fatigued my legs are, it now appears that one ride a day is no longer enough for my guilt and it is going to torture me by forcing 30 miles a day from now on…not sure I like that….

Well…not sure how I can be running late this morning but I am…got up around 5:30 and just can’t get started…I am kind of liking taking an ibuprofen in the evening since it feels like it is still working now and my legs don’t hurt hardly at all…and after the week I had on the bike, they should hurt like crazy right now….slept okay last night but feel a little off today and the day has started with coughing and sneezing and my head is pretty plugged up but I don’t want to take anything for it since I need to have that available at night to be able to sleep…I just wish there was something I could take that didn’t screw up my BP…looks like I’ll just have to be miserable all summer and that is not something I look forward to…and the weather is making me miserable, too…I mean having to wear gloves on the bike on May 10th? I did get the bike cleaned since it was just filthy from riding in the wet the past couple of days and the shifter had started to hang up during the 6-7 shift…didn’t get a lot done yesterday but make potato salad that I have been craving all week but today will be different…not going to do a double on the bike today since it is so damn cold out there and I won’t get out until after noon and I don’t like going late in the day…more later…

Well….on a day when I thought I was going to be able to take off with the t-storms that were forecast, the rain moved out early so I got to get out and torture myself some more…and with that, I set two more new records on the bike….7 days in a row of 30+ mile rides and the most total miles in a week ever with 214.7 miles replacing the 205 miles of the old record that I set a couple of years ago. Until this year, I had never done more than 7 30 milers in a year let alone a week…and the last mileage record was an anomaly since it included my 105 mile one day record and I never got close to that again…until now. I am a little proud to still have the will and capability to keep doing this stuff at my advanced age and that has gotten me started on what I’m going to do for this year’s birthday feat of strength…and it popped into my head that maybe double my age in miles?  That would probably be the last one of those that I do since I really don’t have anything to prove anymore…so why do I keep trying to prove it? Oh, well…all I know is that I frickin hurt everywhere right now and I’m going to need to take something for it or I won’t be able to move later…and no, it’s not a good pain…it’s just pain and that is a pain….