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  1. Original post
    vernon levy
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    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    I've been cycling seriously now for about two years and I'm on the verge
    of beginning competitive racing. That's a big investment of time and
    effort. If you stop cycling for a couple of weeks, you lose *so* much
    of what you've gained. I'm hoping I'll only lose a week and that's bad
    enough.

    You are making a mountain out a molehill.

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    You get it back again so quickly though. It really is only temporary.

    A real cyclist would have riddent through the pain :-)

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    If I miss karate for a couple of weeks, I get into a situation where I


    know

    Quoted message said:

    what moves my body is meant to be doing, but it just doesn't want to do
    them. A week or so later, and I'm back to normal again.

    A fortnight's lay off becasue of muscle strains - far more serious than a
    piddling blister had a little affect on my cycling . a day or so after
    resuming things fell back into place.

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    A week or so really is very minor. Presumably you can still exercise other
    bits of yourself as well.

    It's all a matter of pain threshold, the black knight could teach us a thing
    or two about sporting injuries....

    BLACK KNIGHT:
    None shall pass.
    ARTHUR:
    What?
    BLACK KNIGHT:
    None shall pass.
    ARTHUR:
    I have no quarrel with you, good Sir Knight, but I must cross this bridge.
    BLACK KNIGHT:
    Then you shall die.
    ARTHUR:
    I command you, as King of the Britons, to stand aside!
    BLACK KNIGHT:
    I move for no man.
    ARTHUR:
    So be it!
    ARTHUR and BLACK KNIGHT:
    Aaah!, hiyaah!, etc.
    [ARTHUR chops the BLACK KNIGHT's left arm off]
    ARTHUR:
    Now stand aside, worthy adversary.
    BLACK KNIGHT:
    'Tis but a scratch.
    ARTHUR:
    A scratch? Your arm's off!
    BLACK KNIGHT:
    No, it isn't.
    ARTHUR:
    Well, what's that, then?
    BLACK KNIGHT:
    I've had worse.
    ARTHUR:
    You liar!
    BLACK KNIGHT:
    Come on, you pansy!

    Quoted message said:

    - Richard (still wondering if the blister is in the region of the pants,


    or

    Quoted message said:

    if the title of this thread is not so relevant to its subject :-/)


    Back of heel. Now if it were in the groin then I too might be reluctant to
    ride....

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  2. Callas
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    In the Homer Simpson sense.

    Blister wound is now about one third healed over.

    London to Cambridge is *tommorow*.

    That new skin stuff from Germoline stung a good deal when applied.
    Formed a sort of skin-like surface, but came off this morning. Prolly
    has some use. I think I prefer plasters, they don't hurt.

    --
    Callas

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  3. Just zis Guy, you know?
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    On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 12:15:24 +0100, Callas <[email hidden]>

    wrote in message : said:

    That new skin stuff from Germoline stung a good deal when applied.
    Formed a sort of skin-like surface, but came off this morning. Prolly
    has some use. I think I prefer plasters, they don't hurt.

    Nonononono! Compeed is what you want! The tried and true remedy for
    blisters. Honest.

    Guy
    --
    May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
    http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

    88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University

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  4. Callas
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    Quoted message said:

    On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 12:15:24 +0100, Callas <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    That new skin stuff from Germoline stung a good deal when applied.
    Formed a sort of skin-like surface, but came off this morning. Prolly
    has some use. I think I prefer plasters, they don't hurt.

    Nonononono! Compeed is what you want! The tried and true remedy for
    blisters. Honest.

    You all appreciate it's post-blister, right? the blister skin shed, and
    now it's healing over.

    --
    Callas

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  5. Danny Colyer
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    Callas said:

    You all appreciate it's post-blister, right? the blister skin shed, and
    now it's healing over.

    Yes. That's a good time to apply Compeed.

    --
    Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
    <URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/>
    "He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

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  6. Just zis Guy, you know?
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    On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 19:49:14 +0100, Callas <[email hidden]>

    wrote in message : said:
    Quoted message said:

    Nonononono! Compeed is what you want! The tried and true remedy for
    blisters. Honest.

    Quoted message said:

    You all appreciate it's post-blister, right? the blister skin shed, and
    now it's healing over.

    Absolutely. Compeed is still the stuff. Trust me, Reading is near
    the Shoe Event Horizon.

    Guy
    --
    May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting.
    http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

    88% of helmet statistics are made up, 65% of them at Washington University

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  7. Callas
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    Quoted message said:

    On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 19:49:14 +0100, Callas <[email hidden]>

    wrote in message : said:
    Quoted message said:

    Nonononono! Compeed is what you want! The tried and true remedy for
    blisters. Honest.

    Quoted message said:

    You all appreciate it's post-blister, right? the blister skin shed, and
    now it's healing over.

    Absolutely. Compeed is still the stuff. Trust me, Reading is near
    the Shoe Event Horizon.

    Well, all too late now 🙁

    Live and learn. I now appreciate how devestating sporting injury is,
    and I've only lost a week or so of cycling.

    --
    Callas

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  8. James Annan
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    Callas said:


    Live and learn. I now appreciate how devestating sporting injury is,
    and I've only lost a week or so of cycling.

    FFS! It's only a blister!

    James
    --
    If I have seen further than others, it is
    by treading on the toes of giants.
    http://www.ne.jp/asahi/julesandjames/home/

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  9. Callas
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    Quoted message said:

    Callas wrote:

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Live and learn. I now appreciate how devestating sporting injury is,
    and I've only lost a week or so of cycling.

    FFS! It's only a blister!

    Yup. And it means I can't ride, just as effectively as a broken leg.
    And not riding for a week is not riding for a week, no matter how it
    happened.

    --
    Callas

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  10. James Annan
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    Callas said:


    Yup. And it means I can't ride, just as effectively as a broken leg.
    And not riding for a week is not riding for a week, no matter how it
    happened.

    http://www.queendom.com/tests/minitests/fx/drama_queen.html

    --
    If I have seen further than others, it is
    by treading on the toes of giants.
    http://www.ne.jp/asahi/julesandjames/home/

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  11. Callas
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    Quoted message said:

    Callas wrote:

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Yup. And it means I can't ride, just as effectively as a broken leg.
    And not riding for a week is not riding for a week, no matter how it
    happened.

    http://www.queendom.com/tests/minitests/fx/drama_queen.html

    I think my response is appropriate.

    I've been cycling seriously now for about two years and I'm on the verge
    of beginning competitive racing. That's a big investment of time and
    effort. If you stop cycling for a couple of weeks, you lose *so* much
    of what you've gained. I'm hoping I'll only lose a week and that's bad
    enough.

    --
    Callas

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  12. Callas
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    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Callas wrote:

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Yup. And it means I can't ride, just as effectively as a broken leg.
    And not riding for a week is not riding for a week, no matter how it
    happened.

    http://www.queendom.com/tests/minitests/fx/drama_queen.html

    I think my response is appropriate.

    Also, it's occured to me my response is mis-percieved.

    I'm not arguing what's happened to me is on the order of, say, a that
    English footballer breaking his foot in a match, or a professional
    cyclist coming off his bike and being invalid for a month.

    But - this is the first time I've ever *not* been able to do a cycling
    activity I wanted to do, due to injury.

    This is the first time I've actually had an experience of, and thus a
    very real and personal insight into, this issue.

    *That's* what I meant when I said that I now could see why sporting
    injury can be devestating.

    --
    Callas

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  13. Richard Corfield
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    Callas said:

    I've been cycling seriously now for about two years and I'm on the verge
    of beginning competitive racing. That's a big investment of time and
    effort. If you stop cycling for a couple of weeks, you lose *so* much
    of what you've gained. I'm hoping I'll only lose a week and that's bad
    enough.

    You get it back again so quickly though. It really is only temporary.

    If I miss karate for a couple of weeks, I get into a situation where I know
    what moves my body is meant to be doing, but it just doesn't want to do
    them. A week or so later, and I'm back to normal again.

    If your leg is in plaster for 6 weeks, then it will come out somewhat
    thinner than before (they have to keep fitting smaller plasters in fact)
    and you'll need time to get it back to strength. Similarly 6 months doing
    little or no excercise in hospital can be quite devastating - but Lance
    Armstrong managed well enough once he'd had time to recover.

    A week or so really is very minor. Presumably you can still exercise other
    bits of yourself as well.

    - Richard (still wondering if the blister is in the region of the pants, or
    if the title of this thread is not so relevant to its subject :-/)

    --
    _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ Richard dot Corfield at ntlworld dot com
    _/ _/ _/ _/
    _/_/ _/ _/ Time is a one way street,
    _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/_/ Except in the Twilight Zone.

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  14. Keith Willoughby
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    Callas said:

    *That's* what I meant when I said that I now could see why sporting
    injury can be devestating.

    I understood. It's a thin line between cycling and not cycling,
    especially over a weekend.

    --
    Keith Willoughby
    Welcome to the police state - http://tinyurl.com/3cptb

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