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Monday, September 6, 2010

I don't know why she swallowed a fly...

Got out on my bike today for a great ride with my friends Dawn & Kristen.  It had been a while since we had been out together and the weather made it a perfect day for a ride.  A few interesting things happened on this ride, here is the good, the bad & the ugly.  First the good, we were all on time, I was pleased that I made record time getting from downtown to Broadripple and 3/4 of the way through the ride we got to blow by three guys in their road racing kits - best "on your left" I've said in a while.  Now the bad, we had to ride back into a very strong wind, but I guess that is good practice; we did have two obnoxious drivers almost run us off the round about, but pretty good all things considered.  And now the ugly - I got stung on the lip by a bee.  You know how occasionally you end up swallowing a fly, well I guess this time I decided to swallow a bee, but it didn't approve.  Needless to say it hurt and was throbbing for the remaining 5 miles before we stopped for lunch, ice never felt so good.  It is still hurting, but no swelling - thank goodness.  I wish I could provide some pithe advice on how to prevent this in the future, but the only thing I can think of is to where a full face mask and there are obvious other issues with that.  Good riding and keep your mouth shut.

3 comments:

  1. Love the "on your left" story! Sorry for your lip!

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  2. Sorry about you lip Alex, but if it makes you feel any better, I got stung by a yellow jacket that crawled down my jersey a couple of weeks ago....... so I guess the face mask wouldn't have stopped him :)

    Way to blow by those racer guys!

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  3. Glad to have you back riding :) Sorry about your lip! Had one down the shirt and stuck in the bra the other day! Maybe I should zip up.

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