hats, cramps, and shoe covers

unlike those of you at home (at least in the cities) i have not been broiled by the sun for the past few days, but have enjoyed on occasion hail and being able to see my breath.
so the above things were all included on my bike today, but the only thing that was plural were shoe covers. it just did not sound right for the other two to be singular.
i decided to go for my bike this morning since it was mostly dry and was supposed to rain this afternoon. with the high temp today of 10. it did not really matter when i went. id be cold the whole day. so i dressed up in basically my winter bike clothes i brought here and was off. i judged right and my body was the perfect temp. the roads were mostly dry and the sun even started coming out. the first 3 or four minutes were cramp free, then from then to about 15 minutes a cramp in my right quad was prominent. i have been consuming electrolytes so that rules out that for the reason. dads theory of lactic acid build up seems to be the only one left. that could very well be the reason today, for sunday my legs cramped up when the guy in front of me crashed at the finish and i unclipped and stopped to avoid him. then almost no cool down, and nothing yesterday...
the cramp was not as bad as usual though and i easily rode through it. about 20 mintues into the ride it had faded quite a bit, not totally, in fact i can tense my leg now and still feel it.
anyhow, i did my sprints to prepare for tomorrows race, those felt pretty good. after i got to the high point of my ride i did a 180 and came back a little ways before continuing the usual loop. i heard a loud crunch and saw something fly off into the grass by the bike trail. i still had air in the tires and all so i thought nothing of it. got home 40 mintues later, and found out what it was...

mmmmm...snail guts. how they got to here i dont know, but they sure were there.

after a shower and stretching it was off to soc. good discussion about how internet can be both social and anti-social. how it can cause depersonalization, lead people to express or surpress their opinion more, and other things along those lines. pretty interesting.
then came home. it started to rain, or hail, or both. i was happy i biked earlier. somehow blew 4 hours doing a whole lot of nothing. then went to talk to the witch hunting prof. about an alternative thing to do. i explained to him that i was having trouble understanding thus could not write and present a protokoll which is kinda like a summary of the last class. i asked if i could do something in english, he said then what is the point of studying in germany (good observation) and i am going to do an essay on a book. but thats a good prof. telling me i should write in german cause thats what i am here for. i think most would just go yeah ok. and id do it in english.
and thats my day in fairly good detail