rainy day.

waking up to rain, cold, and wind is never fun when you need to have it be nice outside. especially when in germany...
after a slow breakfast and quite a bit of sitting around (woke up 9 30, class 12 15) i went to class. the lecture was not very good. but the discussion about metahpors and the internet was good. there was a lot being said and it would require me to type way to much. so ill leave it at how it is now.
after that i came home made some lunch then again sat around. hoping the rain would stop and i could go racing. the germans, at least in my experiences, are weather wusses. they will wear pants unitl its 85, jackets up to 70. and if its raining, well it might as well be raining acid cause they sure dont go out to check. thus racing did not happen. and in most ways i guess thats good.
first its rainy windy cold. i dont really want to race in this kinda weather either. no fun. second and more importantly my damn legs.
yesterday i took the day off from biking, except for going to the uni and to the movie (which was decent by the way). so all together around 30 min of easyish riding. and i dont know weather the four hours on sunday counts for much either. so we will just count it as a half day rest. so after 1.5 days of rest this morning biking to the uni i got a small cramp in my leg. this was a bad sign. this is definatley not the first time such a thing has happened, but just from that i knew biking today was gonna hurt.
my legs do this weird thing, which i truly truly hate, that if i dont bike for a day or two after doing a lot of biking, cramp up like crazy. and it hurts like heck. so much it is hard to continue. why i dont know. but i want it to not happen. and its not from not drinking water, cause i watch that pretty carefully because of my problem. also its not lack of steching either, cause i did that yesterday too. so if anyone knows what is wrong with me please let me know. and as you can guess the cramping happened today. it was pretty bad too. i wanted to do short sprints today, but for the first hour my legs hurt to much to do anything but move then round and round. at just about an hour the pain began to subside and i did some short sprints, actually quite a few. at first my legs were very sluggish, but eventually i got a little bit of snap back into them.
30 min later i was home. took my bike in the shower, cleaned the dead worms off. then did a bunch of stretching and found that today the problem muscel(s) can be stretched if you lie on your back, one leg straight out, then bring the other up like doing a cannonball, one there push it towards the center of the body.
anyways. that is why it is good i did not race today. i would have not had a good time. hopefully i wont be cramping tomorrow.

oh, i got some photos today...