I pulled a twelve hour shift last night, sleeping from 8:30 until the same time this morning. This was a necessary rest as I was feeling a bit ‘strange’ yesterday evening. All was good until returning from IN-N-OUT Burger. I’d heard rumors from various cyclists that this was the ‘holy grail’ of fast food and somehow acceptable because the beef is never frozen and the fries are cooked with vegetable oil. Freshness this, good potatoes that… Ok, whatever, a burger tastes good from time to time so I had to see what this place was all about while I’m in the area.
I can’t recall the last time I had a fast food burger, so perhaps unbeknownst to me my body was doomed from the start. The food was quite tasty, but it only took about ten minutes before my body started freaking out about the whole ordeal. A general chilled sensation with goose-bumps, slight headache, and a noticeably higher heart rate had me somewhat concerned. I didn’t know exactly what was going on so I figure my body could use some extra rest to sort things out. Maybe I’m turning into a finicky cyclist, but it was reason enough for some extra attention. This was at 8:30 so I just called it an early night.
I was relived to feel 100% normal this morning when I woke up. Chances are I’m officially done with fast food burgers! IN-N-OUT is now on my ‘banned-list’ of restaurants.
So aside from this minor event, I’ve added some hyperlinks to the race calendar in the right side column. You can now link yourself around cyberspace and see all about the races I’ll be doing this season. Events without hyperlinks are races without much information posted on their sites so I just left them without for now. Word on the street is that NORBA #1 has some technical rocky singletrack. Who really knows for sure, but it could be fun. Keep it Real, TJ
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