Venting About My Bike Ride

So I was out cycling today with my buddy as we're preparing for the first triathlon of the series. It's pissing rain out, windy and cold and we love to train in that weather! So we're going hard about 1 hour into the ride and we're coming up on a massive hill climb we like to do. We throw our bikes into an easier gear and start the steep ascent. The water from the road is spraying at my back as I crank myself up the hill. Halfway up I see my buddy slumped over in the saddle and I knew I had to push him. I yelled at him to get up and push to keep up with me. I wanted this climb to be hard and intense. I jumped out of my saddle and mashed the pedals as I sailed past my friend. He gets up and starts pushing to keep pace, I look forward through my water droplet covered sunglasses, drop my head down and push my quads like pistons on a race car. 30 seconds later I look back and I had dropped my buddy, he was at least 100 meters back and I felt great. I kept pushing to the top of the hill and began to pedal slowly so my buddy could catch up. I was feeling pretty good despite the display of raw power I had just shown (Unknown at the time was the massive amounts of lactic acid I had built up in my calves). We ride down the road another 5 km's and I'm feeling great. We decide to pick up the pace to 33km/hour. I throw my bike into a big gear and I stood up to mash down on the pedals, well, that is when the shit hit the fan. I pushed down with my left foot and immediatley I felt the most intense pain I had ever felt in my life. My left calve muscle balled up at the top and I felt like someone has implanted a hardball inside my calve muscle. I immediatley reached down to hold my immobalized leg and my bike fell into the ditch where I fucking landed on a dead roadkill skunk..... My bike crashed on top of me and the ditch water I slid through was brown, green and slimy. None of this concerned me at the time because I seriously thought my calve muscle had torn off and completely rolled up. The pain was incredible. I can not even describe how much it hurt and there was fuck all I could do about it but lay there and take it. My calve muscle was sticking out about 4 inches from where it should be and literally was about the size of a hardball. This intense pain lasted about 3 minutes before barely subsiding to tolerable and it was another 15 minutes before I could get up and walk....... I had to clip my right foot into my pedal and use one leg to pedal the rest of the way home as my left leg dangled at my side.

It's been 6 hours and it still hurts at the time of writing. I have a heating pad on it and this totally sucks. I just wanted to vent and say how shitty this was. :evil:

By the way, I smell like ass now from the skunk, that shit got all over my arms and body......

Damn bro...sorry to hear that...Probably gonna have to get a doctor look at your leg....i don't know could be a strain, or micro scopic tear in your calve muscle, but then again...you get a doc to look at it...Hope is nothing serious....

You feeling any better today Zylo? I've had my calves do that on me in the middle of a half marathon. I think I had been on clen the days before to shed some last minute LB's before the race and that's what caused it.

I've also had killer calf pain/pumps while on EQ and Winny and thought the muscle was going to tear away from the bone it hurt so bad.

Feel better soon bro and good luck with it.

And take a bath!!!
Seriously there's recipes for skunk stiunk you can find online, many of them are mixes of peroxide and baking soda so be careful you don't blow your house up

It's feeling better today, the muscle feels like someone hit it with a bat (repeatedly), but it's not nearly as bad as yesterday.

I've been wrapping it in a heating pad for 15 minutes every hour or so and that seems to relax the muscle and make it feel better.

The smell is mostly gone now that I've taken a couple showers and used lots of soap. I threw the clothes I was wearing in the garbage though...... They got blood, guts and slimy poopy ditch water all over them.....

tomato juice takes away teh odor from skunk.....ake care of that injury Z