Thursday, May 24, 2007

no more blogging...

until I finish this talk I have to give tomorrow! I'm so procrastinat-y tonight...Firefox is going off, and you'll all have to leave me fun and interesting comments that I"ll read AFTER I make up this talk. "A survey of nonlinear dynamics in Micro and Nanosystems" Sounds great, doesn't it? 30 minutes of pure powerpoint delight...

On a quick cycling note: I went on the Echelon almost-no-drop women's ride, and it was freeeeezing! If it wasn't for Ginger's quick wit and hilarious nature, carol's, I don't think i would have made it! My back was so freakin' sore. I have realized that I CANNOT ride that TT bike for over 2.5 hours at a shot without paying for it the next day. Last night I had TTT practice, and today I could barely sit on my road bike. Massage in my near future, it seems... I am not one who gets sore easily, and is not easily deterred (i.e. after crashing last fall and breaking my collarbone, grade III separation of the shoulder, broken rib2, a bruised hip and a banged up cheek i was back on the trainer in a week and outside riding in 2 weeks) but yet this achy pain is really annoying!!!!!!!!

Oh well...back to work. more blogging later!
Ciao!!

3 comments:

Gary said...

Kim,
I hear ya wrt the TT aches and pains. As far as I can tell it simply takes more time on the bike in the aero position. I am going to try to get out and ride in that position at least one day a week. I read an article in Bicycling last night that suggested that a "slow" ride on the TT bike on recovery days is a good way to get used to the position as long as you can stay disciplined and ride easy.

Kimberly (aka. DrKim) said...

thanks for the tip! I will try that. Yesterday on the road bike was really painful. I think I'm putting too much effort into power when I ride the TT bike without being used to the position. I didn't have any pain when I raced it last weekend...but then again that was only a 10mile effort, and I did a lot of the warm up spinning just sitting up in a trainer! The 2.5 hours on it at tempo pace...just not good at all! Practice...

Chris said...

Back pain is the worst for sure because in cycling we use our back muscles more than we ever know.