kylepounds’s BodyBlog

I went on my ride yesterday and the darn thing costed me more than $100. I was lazy and didn’t get out until 1:45 PM. The ride was fun. The first couple of hours my lungs were clogged but that didn’t matter because I didn’t want to hammer anyways. Right before I got to Marble Falls all of my muscles started camping. First it was my left problem calf and then my other calf, both of my thighs and my inner thighs. It was totally confusing to me because I’ve only cramped once before in my life and that was because I was hammering off the couch.  I was like, "Am I just too old to be able to go on a four hour ride without training?". Is this what getting old is? I’m only 35.  Is something wrong with my diet? I had plenty of electrolites and water in me.  I decided that if I got a painful and debilitating cramp I would abandon the ride and two seconds later it happened to my right inner thigh and so I immediately pulled over and took all of my weight off of it and it went away before it got worse. When I rolled into town I asked some ladies if there was a bus station there and they said no and I was like "Of course this is America, not some third world country".  Then I suddenly had an epiphany. Maybe I’m cramping from all the weight training I’ve been doing which has made me too tight to go long distances. I sat down and spread my legs and did a limberity test and sure enough I was tighter than ever. I couldn’t touch my elbows to the ground and so I decided the cramps are from not mixing stretching in with the weight training. My muscles were too tight to allow proper circulation for the enduro stuff. From now on when I plan on a big ride I will liberally stretch the day before and I’ll be OK. I stretched for a couple minutes and was filled with a new desire to go ahead and complete the ride. I didn’t have a rear light anymore though because for some reason I didn’t have a rear light on my road bike so I took the one off of my mountain bike but I put it on upside down and even though I thought I clicked it, my seat bag pushed it off and I lost it, so I took my front one off and put it on the back which left me with no light on the front. I started so late because I figured I would get this months full moon experience one day after the full moon as I forgot about it on the full moon the day before. I knew the moon comes up considerably later the day after, but I forgot that it’s way after. On the full moon night the moon comes up as the sun goes down, but one day after you have to wait like three hours!  So I was riding down the road and I couldn’t see one foot in front of me.   I got to a place where there were concrete dividers and so shoulder for me so I rode on the other side of them where I had a lane all to myself which was cool. I was riding down the road minding my own business and listening to music and all of a sudden I’m flying through the air. When I landed I slid another 10 feet down something and when I stopped I found myself at the bottom of a riverbed looking up at a concrete river embankment. The lane I was riding didn’t have a bridge to go with it! I suddenly lost the taste in my mouth to continue riding so I road down to the next gas station and had to get a $40 cab ride back home.  Then I had a shower and went to the hospital and got four stitches in a gash in my leg that wouldn’t stop bleeding. That’s the LAST time I go on a night ride on the road. It’s just too dangerous. There are too many things that can go wrong. From now on I will begin my rides at the crack of dawn.  I think that ride is smaller than I thought. I thought it was like 150 miles but I think it’s more like 130 or something. The first half of it out to Marble Falls is no joke though. The entire thing is either straight up or straight down these quater mile to half mile long rolling hills that are so steep some of them are illegally graded.  

I pumped it for like an hour today. My arms felt week but that’s just because I’m on the rebound. Man I need to figure out how to get to sleep early so I can get up early and ride a big ride or maybe just plan on coming home at night. I’ll do that….

I still feel like Hell because of the alcohol from two nights ago. Why did I do that?! When you’re in shape you can’t get drunk unless it’s for a really good reason. Those are the rules. 

I went to the gym anyways though because my roomate wanted to go. I did 20 deep squats with 150. Then that 10×10 leg extension with 90lbs. Then I tried to closed grip bench 185 but pegged it to my chest. Then I did 9x bench at 185 then 10 at 135 which was hard. I felt like there was no blood in my arms. My legs felt good though. Maybe I just need to get my arms going again after being sick. I wanted to do my big ride tomorrow but I think I’ll try it day after tomorrow. I want to do it so I can impress the ladies.  

I don’t know if I’ll go to the gym today. I feel like crap because I drank two bottles of wine last night. I’m never going to drink again in my entire life. I did it because I was excited about the cell uploads and I wanted to party but I over did it. I got up this morning all tipsey and fell into my huge mirror and it crashed down. 

I think I have the cell uploads figured out. I think I don’t have to worry about being able to upload 10 minute videos from my room. Outdoors videos are another story but I have plenty of time to figure out the capabilities on that.

I wasn’t going to pump it up today because I was pre-occupied with my cell phone but my roomate wanted to go so I went for like an hour and a half. I had like ten bags of candy for dinner last night and I forgot to eat my protein drink today with all of my pills and so I didn’t feel %100 so I didn’t do deep squats but rather the leg press in which I did ten reps with 14 plates with half presses then ten reps with 12 plates and 20 deep reps with 6 plates and 20 slow deep reps with 4 plates then my 10×10’s on the leg extension where I rest for 15 seconds then a bunch of stomach stuff and finished with a little tri action. I think I did ok today considering I didn’t even want to go in today.

I was talking to Jordan who works the 24 Hour Fitness desk today because she has a perfect body and I was trying to figure out how she got so hot. She said she’s on the UT soccer team and they run sprints on the treadmill at the UT gym. She said they do 15 seconds set on 14 so I’ll give that a try and see what I can do.

I got a membership at fitness-singles.com and wrote all the girls on there and some of the hottest ones on there wrote me back and were expressing some form of interest in possibly going running or biking with so now I’m all excited to go out and do some huge rides and runs and then write them back and invite them to try something with me.

I recently reconnected with Ingrid Alongi and she said she would pump iron with me when she’s in Austin in a couple months so that would be cool.  I wonder how strong she is cause she was on the Junior National team for road riding and was on the CU cycling team too I think. 

Holy Shnap I can’t beleive I just might be uploading videos with my cell phone. This will save me sooo much time. It was profibitively long to do it with my computer . , Oh no I have to go technical issue with the phone…

I don’t know if I’m going to excersize. I’ve been on tech support the whole day trying to get this phone working. I guess I have one that takes forever to get going. It’s the htc fuze. I’m waiting for the phone to charge right now so I can get back on phone support. Lord so many steps. 

Today I bought the AT&T phone that opens up. It was the only touch screen that has international internet and could support a third party software that I found that makes it easy to upload videos to youtube. So I’ve bought three phones from three stores in the last three days. I am jumping out of my skin excited about figuring out how to upload videos to youtube tomorrow. The girl there also said that she had heard about the international unlimited cell phone internet that is coming out in March. She said it’s just hearsay but if it’s true OMG.

I didn’t work out today because I was busy playing with the phone and wokring. My arms felt totally worked today anyways. I must have worked out hard yesterday. I did the peck deck drop set from my bodywaight. I never get to use the pec deck because someones always on it. I need to keep my eye out for it. I want to do that big ride around lake travis soon before it gets hot out. I’ll see when the next full moon isl. That would be so awesoem to do that ride with a strong girl.

I need to figure out how to post ot theis site from my cell. Or find out if it is possible. I can’t log in maybe because this sitge doesnt have mobile internet and you need that.  I can’t see what I’m typing…

Today I bought the AT&T phone that opens up. It was the only touch screen that has international internet and could support a third party software that I found that makes it easy to upload videos to youtube. So I’ve bought three phones from three stores in the last three days. I am jumping out of my skin excited about figuring out how to upload videos to youtube tomorrow. The girl there also said that she had heard about the international unlimited cell phone internet that is coming out in March. She said it’s just hearsay but if it’s true OMG.

I didn’t work out today because I was busy playing with the phone and wokring. My arms felt totally worked today anyways. I must have worked out hard yesterday. I did the peck deck drop set from my bodywaight. I never get to use the pec deck because someones always on it. I need to keep my eye out for it. I want to do that big ride around lake travis soon before it gets hot out. I’ll see when the next full moon isl. That would be so awesoem to do that ride with a strong girl.

I need to figure out how to post ot theis site from my cell. Or find out if it is possible. I can’t log in maybe because this sitge doesnt have mobile internet and you need that.  I can’t see what I’m typing…

Today I bought the AT&T phone that opens up. It was the only touch screen that has international internet and could support a third party software that I found that makes it easy to upload videos to youtube. So I’ve bought three phones from three stores in the last three days. I am jumping out of my skin excited about figuring out how to upload videos to youtube tomorrow. The girl there also said that she had heard about the international unlimited cell phone internet that is coming out in March. She said it’s just hearsay but if it’s true OMG.

I didn’t work out today because I was busy playing with the phone and wokring. My arms felt totally worked today anyways. I must have worked out hard yesterday. I did the peck deck drop set from my bodywaight. I never get to use the pec deck because someones always on it. I need to keep my eye out for it. I want to do that big ride around lake travis soon before it gets hot out. I’ll see when the next full moon isl. That would be so awesoem to do that ride with a strong girl.

I need to figure out how to post ot theis site from my cell. Or find out if it is possible. I can’t log in maybe because this sitge doesnt have mobile internet and you need that.  I can’t see what I’m typing…

Right now I’m in the process of trying to figure out how to upload videos to youtube with my cell phone. I recently decided to start focusing on working out at home instead of the gym because I have to get caught up on work at home.

It has been a real chore. First I called t-mobile and they told me which phone to get for that but it turned out, after talking to a lot of people, that t-mobile doesn’t have phones that can do that so I changed my service provider to at&t and they supposedly have a phone that can do that, the samsung epic. at&t can’t help me figure out how to do it though so today I will call samsung. They said in a couple months they will introduce ullimited international internet!  If that’s true, Oh my Frikin GOD!!! That will completely change the way the world works. I think  I may be the only person in a thousand mile radius who understands that though, not to sound big headed but all the dozens of people I’ve talked to about it in the last couple days have been like, "Do what? Download videos from youtube". And I’m like, "NO!!! UPLOAD videos TO YOUTUBE!!!". Jesus Chist.  It’s not that big of a concept. Whatever.

I went to the gym last night for a couple hours and did pretty well. I haven’t been sleeping lately, literally. I’ve found out though that even if you’re body has that hungover-like sleep deprivation feel, once you get your blood going you can’t really tell. It’s like drinking to get rid of the hangover kind of. Day before yesterday I went to the gym for a bit too and did well. I can run again, for now, so that’s cool. I did like 8 miles on the treadmill a couple days ago. I saw this really hot girl running on the treadmill the other day. That was cool.  She even made eye contact with me a couple of times; probably because I was oggling her though. Sometimes I do that.

I’m still working out at the gym but as soon as I get this phone uploading situation figured out I’ll be pumping it up at home.

 That’s all for now.