Mission "Challenge 1000km" accomplished!!! January 10, 2006
Posted by clayton in : workout , add a commentToday's the last day of the challenge and is also my birthday!!! YAY:-) 17yrs old now…and DAMN, today's ride was a tough one.
The ride: Every two strokes, I was feeling pain in my left knee. The ride went like, "ouch, ouch, ouch" on flats and "OUCH, OUCH, OUCH!!!" on the uphills. Since I focused on pulling upward my left foot to get away with the knee pain yesterday, I got muscle pain and couldn't really do that today. I was at 956km when I started the ride and just had to push through. So, I shortened my 40km course and headed straight to the bike store. Really wiped out by the time I got there, hehe. I'm guessing I looked like a dead man walking already, the store owner kindly opened the door for me;-) Since he's the only worker in the store, he asked me if I could go buy his lunch some place nearby. Still had a lot of time left so I went to the first store which was closed, came back and went looking for another one when I saw one attractive woman, for some reason selling lunch, hehe. Bought it and took it to the store owner and he said, "Wow, look at the variety of the veggies and meat." There was obviously a lot of things to eat in there for a 400yen lunch.
I guess the store owner really likes to take pictures, he was soooo interested in my new cell phone's cam. I told him that I dropped my cell phone and all the memory/ data inside disappeared + it costs 20,000yen. He was like, "Ouch but that's a nice cam…" hehe, still interested in the cam, eh? Changed my front tire after that and headed back home. Total of 67km, 2:57'38, ave speed 23kph, ave cadence 63rpm. Here's a pick of the prize I got for accomplishing mission "Challenge 1000km."
I got home right before 3pm, took a shower and went out to buy 2sweaters which I was craving for. Wanted to go for a swim afterwards but my knee was still in pain (I had a hard time going up stairs!!!) so I decided to take a day off, as usual.
Tomorrow: I'm gonna check on my knee and then choose whether or not to go to the doc or to go for a swim. I hope I get to swim, absolutely not breast stroke though. No running or biking cause I want it to recover.