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My condolences. Times like that are usually when my wife steps in and reminds me I'm old, and to stop trying to hurt myself. I probably defer to her judgment about half the time. Then probably about half the times I think "Naw I'll be fine" I wind up hurting myself.
I miss biking. We've been talking about buying bikes for the family so we can all hit various trails together. The kid is dying for a 12 speed or whatever, having long since mastered her fixed gear learning bike. There is a pretty flat paved trail in town that goes about 10 miles or so for the whole thing, and then a few light mountain biking trails that might be good for the family once we've gotten our biking legs back. I haven't biked in like, 10 years?
Thanks. Hopefully it's like all the times I've hurt my shoulder or elbow, I stay off it for a week and while it might ruin a project it doesn't permanently change anything. As opposed to the first time I hurt my lower back, after which it's never been the same.
I've really enjoyed taking it back up. My wife joked that as a white male professional, I hit a certain age and my biology kicked in and I needed to go get a road bike and some spandex like every dentist around here.
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