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New season, same training hazards
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 2008-10-02 6:22 AM |
Regular  65  Erskineville |  Subject: New season, same training hazardsSo a new season for the southern hemisphere kids is about to start. Spring has sprung and were all starting to get cycling tans. With another year, I see and experience the same training hazards. I live in a semi rural area. So common hazards for me are my good friends from above, the Magpies around where I live. I have a particular ride of which there are two sections where I will get swooped by two seperate birds without fail. Gernerally there is not much damage done aside from the occasional chuck out of the helment and just a being startled. I quite like magpies so they don't bother me two much. What does bother me is snakes. I have MASSIVE anxiety about snakes when I am out running. The thought of a brown snake (which can be aggressive and straight up deadly) popping out to say g'day lifts my HR a little. I'm even a bit jumpy if I catch sight of a piece of blown truck tyre on the side of the road. Thank fully the pool I can deal with fairly well. Although on a really hot day last weekend I went in for my workout and my little suburban pool had turned into Bondi on news years day. What other hazards does eveyone experience during their training?? |
| 2008-10-02 8:05 AM in reply to: #1710861 |
Expert 938  | Subject: RE: New season, same training hazards Deer...lots of deer, plus squirrels, foxes, groundhogs, and chipmunks. Oh, and since I live in a semi-rural area as well...people wo speed out of their driveway without really looking - they probably glanced to see if a car was coming but not a bike. I always love the shocked look I get when I look into their window, after they've pulled out in front of me, and I'm either even or passing them. |
| 2008-10-02 10:11 AM in reply to: #1710861 |
Elite 3022  Preferably on my bike somewhere | Subject: RE: New season, same training hazards jmturvey - 2008-10-02 7:22 AM What other hazards does eveyone experience during their training?? The biggest hazards I encounter are definitely self-inflicted. I have seen all sorts of animals, from deer to dogs, vultures to pickup drivers, but the ones that have done the most damage are me. Cross-training wrecked an ankle, coming back too fast ruined a knee. I am my own worst enemy. |
| 2008-10-02 10:14 AM in reply to: #1710861 |
| New user 13 | Subject: RE: New season, same training hazards Ah mate- Magpies! grrrr the amount of times ive nearly fallen off the bike due to these pesky things! After hurting my ankle and taking a few days off, im actually a little relieved as it means 3 or 4 days of not getting swooped..... those things are worse than the seagulls during a chip storm
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| 2008-10-02 5:40 PM in reply to: #1710861 |
| Member 8 | Subject: RE: New season, same training hazards What follows has nothing to do with triathlons, but brown snakes were mentioned so.... Once, when I was 12, I was riding my bike through the woods near my parent's home when a rattlesnake struck at my bike; it missed me, but it nailed my rear tire. Afterward, despite having seen the snake in my periphial vision and the account from several witnesses, I thought I was delusional. We then pulled the tube and there were two tiny punctures....since then the only hazards I have experienced riding a bike have been human ones in the shape of cars. Had a friend of mine with me while crossing a Georgia swamp around midnight; a cottonmouth bit him on his right leg. Fortunately, it struck a pocket in which he was keeping his Ranger Handbook, which is about an inch thick; the fangs went through to the very last page. Snakes give me the heebie-jeebies... |
| 2008-10-03 7:41 AM in reply to: #1710861 |
Master 1289 Franklin, TN | Subject: RE: New season, same training hazards I ran over a black snake in an off road tri last Saturday on my mtn bike. I hope he liked Kenda Nevegal 1.9s! What scares me most is someone backing out of a driveway here in my own neighborhood. Or they are on their cellphone on their way home from work, the sun is getting lower in the sky... yes, I do it too, but I try to stay alert. |
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