Dear Mr. Red SUV: BLOW ME

Friday ended up sucking more than I had hoped. After the incident with the lady from the Children's Charity downtown I was really looking forward to getting home.

One stop away from my Ajax train stop, the conductor comes on the speaker letting us know that my station is closed due to a gas leak so everyone needs to get off in Pickering and buses will be provided. Wonderful, I think to myself, 1 bus for a half a train for of people just won't cut it.

I call my wife at home to come and pick me up. I still need to get my bike at the Ajax train station. She drives me to my bike and I see the fire trucks, ambulance and police...I take my bike and boogie.

When biking, particularily during rush hours, I bike on the sidewalk along with other bikers and pedestrians along Westney Road. Going northbound on Westney I cross by the 401 exit. I'm coming down the hill with my signal being green to go. I love when I can book down a hill through an intersection.

Anyway, FuckNut in his SUV decides he's gonna make a right (on his red) and doesn't look for any pedestrians (or bikers) who aren't in 40000 tonnes of steel and pulls right in front of me. I'm going about 25-30 km/h with about 1 meter to stop. I brake hard...my bike bounces...I gonna drive into the SUV and it's gonna hurt...my tires are actually squeeling on the sidewalk.

So, I quickly assess my options.
1) Go right: I'm into oncomming traffic and in front of Fuck Nut's SUV. He'll drive over me for sure.
2) Go left: Not enough room to clear the SUV. I'll hit him anyway...even if I do make it, I'll be moving into more oncomming traffic who can't see me coming off the highway.
3) Drive into him: OUCH
4) Throw myself off the bike and hope for the best.

So instead of hitting a moving car I make the split second decision to throw myself on the ground. My head hits the pavement pretty hard (thankfully I was wearing my helmet that I normally joke about), my shoulder, elbow and hands are suffering from some serious road rash. I'm laying on the pavement bleeding and look over, still stunned, to see what's happening. To see where I landed.

I see fucknut in his shiny red SUV. He looks at me, laying on the pavement and keeps driving. FUCK YOU ASSHOLE. I hope you see me in your dreams and relive YOU being a fucking coward and driving off leaving me bleeding on a sidewalk.

Thankfully the car behind him saw what happened and stopped to offered to help and see if I was ok. They seems shocked too that the other guy didn't stop to at least see if I needed assistance.

Although a bit soar and bruised, otherwise OK, I finished my bike ride home.

Just checking in

Not too much new to report on the fitness front this week.
I did finally go out and get some casual clothes for the summer. I was concerned I wouldn't yet fit into a 34 pant and would be disappointed.

Low and behold I got myself a 32 inch waist pant.

Now, I didn't realize what a controversial issue taking Creatine was. I just happened to read about it on Men's Health and decided to go pick some up.

As far as that goes, I've noticed my tongue is more dry than normal so I'm trying to keep my water intake up. Needless to say, I'm slightly more bloated and I've gained a pound or two but that's about it. So far the biggest benefit has been the reduction of lactic acid while riding my bike. I've also gotten a big kick out of my wife calling me a "druggie" while I drink my spiked apple juice.

I can't honestly say I've noticed much of a change while doing the resistance training other than I tire less easily and can take shorter breaks between sets even though I've increased the resistance. I guess really that's all you're supposed to get!! I guess I was half hoping to wake up the next morning looking more ripped than the day before. Sadly, this was not the case.

Pullin' Down my Pants

Ok here's the truth...my clothes are actually officially falling off my body.

Since I started working out in January I haven't bought any new pants or shirts not knowing what my body will be like in the weeks to come I've been reluctant to spend money on "in between" clothes but this is getting rediculous.

Now, my good work pants AND belt can be pulled completely off without untying anything. YES even the belt comes comes off. I think I'll save that belt. You can see how months ago I was bursting at the 2nd notch very reluctant to move it to the 3rd. Now, 5 months later, I've outshrunk it all.

For shits and giggles and because really...who doesn't love chemicals in their bloodstream... I picked up some Creatine today. I want to bulk up a bit more quickly to burn fat a bit faster with the extra muscle. Just a short term thing because I don't know much about it. I really want to finally kill the McFatty role along my stomach. I know there's great abs under there...they're just a little shy.

Oh, the guy at the store (obvioulsy trying to sell me whey shakes) said I should be taking in 1 gram of protein for my entire body weight. I'm getting about 75 grams of protein a day between chicken and dairy. I can't imagine I need to add another 90 grams of protein. I'm trying to stay reasonably muscular and slim...not be a body builder.

Big Bad Muscle Shots

Been many weeks since I posted progress pictures.
A buddy of mine complained last time that I didn't show any full body shots so I've added 2 of them.

Check it out!!

Status

Been a few weeks since I posted a status update.
I've modified my routine slightly.

I used to do my resistance training one day, followed by treadmill the next. This was supposed to allow for healing while still getting the necessary amount of cardio in.

Now that I bike for 30 minutes every day (even on bowflex days) I only do treadmill every other off day.

Downside to the biking? My legs still aren't used to it yet. I find biking is quite a good leg exerciser. I've pretty much stopped doing legs on the bowflex because they get sore enough just from biking. Or, worse yet, if I do my leg exercises I find I hurt too much to enjoy biking!

Is that the wrong way of handling this?

COOLNESS ALERT:
My wife mentioned how great my pecks are looking! I can't wait to mow the lawn without a shirt on this year :-)