Thursday Catheter Bag Ride

I'm thinking of using a catheter bag on rides from now on. Not that you care, but I should not have to stop for TWO road side nature breaks during a two hour road ride. Eeesh!! I think I need to scale back my post lunch water consumption. From 1:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. I drank about 64 oz. of water and ate nothing. Not only does it make for annoying road side pee breaks, but I believe it's flushing too many nutrients out of my bod before my bod has a chance to use 'em and pump them out via my sweat.

I've noticed this pattern before. Too much peeing and the next thing you know I'm cramping even though I hydrated and took in electrolytes during the ride. I should have ate some salted pretzels or something later in the afternoon, as I often do, but I was pretty busy at work and forgot. I think I'll try to scale back some of my afternoon hydrating, or drop a Nuun or Zym tab in my bottler to add some electrolyte giddy up to my pre-ride bevies. I'm also gonna get the latest in anti Nature Break Technology- The Uro-1000™ Catheter Bag! Time to get tapped and get rollin'!

All pee talk aside, sorry about that by the way, I had sweet ride tonight. Same 31 mile loop as Tuesday, but I did some of it in reverse. Including going UP the new smooth as silk, sweeter than double fudge puddin' 1.5 mile stretch of pavement that I bombed down the other day. I say GOD DAMN! It's just as sweet going UP. Yeah, I was going 15 mph slower on the climb, but it was ass buttah smooth.

Luckily the cramping I had in my calves was pretty mild and came in the last 15 minutes of the ride. Not stop worthy or anything, but a cramps nonetheless. I'm not one to cramp too often, so I'll use this as a warning sign and make some adjustments to my routine.

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Today I was checking out the Solos that have signed up for Big Bear so far.
Looks like Tinker is coming! Sweet!

Hey, if you're gonna get your ass kicked, get it kicked by a legend, right?? No word on whether Blog Father and Tinker teammate Jason Sager will be there to hand up bottles of Mona Vie or not. I'm sure other big names will be showing too. Should be epic. Maybe there could be a second solo division for Non Pro Sons of Slack. We could say the first three non Pro, non podium Solo finishers race for a Case/12 Pack/6 Pack of beer? Any takers? I wonder if Laird would approve?? Better yet I wonder if he'd pay for it will some of our entry fee dough?? HA! Then again, maybe another sponsor will step up with such a prize. Again, any takers? Maybe I just better plan on enjoying a couple beers of my own here at home as I recover. They'll taste damn sweet regardless of where I place.

Time for bed.

Later