Pants

I've been cycling seriously now for about two years and I'm on the verge
of beginning competitive racing. That's a big investment of time and
effort. If you stop cycling for a couple of weeks, you lose *so* much
of what you've gained. I'm hoping I'll only lose a week and that's bad
enough.

You are making a mountain out a molehill.

You get it back again so quickly though. It really is only temporary.

A real cyclist would have riddent through the pain :-)

If I miss karate for a couple of weeks, I get into a situation where I
know
what moves my body is meant to be doing, but it just doesn't want to do
them. A week or so later, and I'm back to normal again.

A fortnight's lay off becasue of muscle strains - far more serious than a
piddling blister had a little affect on my cycling . a day or so after
resuming things fell back into place.

A week or so really is very minor. Presumably you can still exercise other
bits of yourself as well.

It's all a matter of pain threshold, the black knight could teach us a thing
or two about sporting injuries....

BLACK KNIGHT:
None shall pass.
ARTHUR:
What?
BLACK KNIGHT:
None shall pass.
ARTHUR:
I have no quarrel with you, good Sir Knight, but I must cross this bridge.
BLACK KNIGHT:
Then you shall die.
ARTHUR:
I command you, as King of the Britons, to stand aside!
BLACK KNIGHT:
I move for no man.
ARTHUR:
So be it!
ARTHUR and BLACK KNIGHT:
Aaah!, hiyaah!, etc.
[ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's left arm off]
ARTHUR:
Now stand aside, worthy adversary.
BLACK KNIGHT:
'Tis but a scratch.
ARTHUR:
A scratch? Your arm's off!
BLACK KNIGHT:
No, it isn't.
ARTHUR:
Well, what's that, then?
BLACK KNIGHT:
I've had worse.
ARTHUR:
You liar!
BLACK KNIGHT:
Come on, you pansy!

- Richard (still wondering if the blister is in the region of the pants,
or
if the title of this thread is not so relevant to its subject :-/)

Back of heel. Now if it were in the groin then I too might be reluctant to
ride....

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 12:15:24 +0100, Callas
wrote in message :

That new skin stuff from Germoline stung a good deal when applied.
Formed a sort of skin-like surface, but came off this morning. Prolly
has some use. I think I prefer plasters, they don't hurt.

Nonononono! Compeed is what you want! The tried and true remedy for
blisters. Honest.

Guy
--
May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University

wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 12:15:24 +0100, Callas

That new skin stuff from Germoline stung a good deal when applied.
Formed a sort of skin-like surface, but came off this morning. Prolly
has some use. I think I prefer plasters, they don't hurt.

Nonononono! Compeed is what you want! The tried and true remedy for
blisters. Honest.

You all appreciate it's post-blister, right? the blister skin shed, and
now it's healing over.

--
Callas

Callas wrote:
You all appreciate it's post-blister, right? the blister skin shed, and
now it's healing over.

Yes. That's a good time to apply Compeed.

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 19:49:14 +0100, Callas
wrote in message :

Nonononono! Compeed is what you want! The tried and true remedy for
blisters. Honest.

You all appreciate it's post-blister, right? the blister skin shed, and
now it's healing over.

Absolutely. Compeed is still the stuff. Trust me, Reading is near
the Shoe Event Horizon.

Guy
--
May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University

wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 19:49:14 +0100, Callas
wrote in message :

Nonononono! Compeed is what you want! The tried and true remedy for
blisters. Honest.

You all appreciate it's post-blister, right? the blister skin shed, and
now it's healing over.

Absolutely. Compeed is still the stuff. Trust me, Reading is near
the Shoe Event Horizon.

Well, all too late now

Live and learn. I now appreciate how devestating sporting injury is,
and I've only lost a week or so of cycling.

--
Callas

Callas wrote:



Live and learn. I now appreciate how devestating sporting injury is,
and I've only lost a week or so of cycling.

FFS! It's only a blister!

James
--
If I have seen further than others, it is
by treading on the toes of giants.
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/julesandjames/home/

wrote:
Callas wrote:

Live and learn. I now appreciate how devestating sporting injury is,
and I've only lost a week or so of cycling.

FFS! It's only a blister!

Yup. And it means I can't ride, just as effectively as a broken leg.
And not riding for a week is not riding for a week, no matter how it
happened.

--
Callas

Callas wrote:


Yup. And it means I can't ride, just as effectively as a broken leg.
And not riding for a week is not riding for a week, no matter how it
happened.

http://www.queendom.com/tests/minite...ama_queen.html

--
If I have seen further than others, it is
by treading on the toes of giants.
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/julesandjames/home/

wrote:
Callas wrote:

Yup. And it means I can't ride, just as effectively as a broken leg.
And not riding for a week is not riding for a week, no matter how it
happened.

http://www.queendom.com/tests/minite...ama_queen.html

I think my response is appropriate.

I've been cycling seriously now for about two years and I'm on the verge
of beginning competitive racing. That's a big investment of time and
effort. If you stop cycling for a couple of weeks, you lose *so* much
of what you've gained. I'm hoping I'll only lose a week and that's bad
enough.

--
Callas