I could use some relief right now. That pulled hamstring is still bothering me. Maybe a cold pack like this would help?

I can be relived that I wasn\’t working up to the local edition of Bike MS. It takes place this coming weekend, and it looks like my leg won\’t be ready for so much action by day after tomorrow. I did Bike MS in 2013, and the route is rather hilly!  It\’s also 150 miles in two days.

I\’m not even sure I\’ll be up to a two-mile ride to meet some friends for lunch Saturday. This morning I tried a short, easy ride on the road bike. I had to go back home before I\’d ridden  half a mile! To complicate things, walking also bothers that leg. If I had a car, driving might bother it, too.

At least I\’ll be on vacation/staycation the next two weeks. I\’ll have a chance to give the leg some rest. I hope to be back at riding before long, or I\’ll lose a lot of the conditioning that I finally seemed to have developed.

Really, I\’d rather have fallen and scraped up both knees when I tripped last Thursday, than have this pulled hamstring. Skin seems to heal much more quickly than muscles, especially at my age.

Speaking of cold packs, our weather is still hot. At 8 pm it\’s still 87 degrees! I think they expect a cold front next week. That will bring some relief from this heat.