Getting "Bugged"

As I've been a slug these last 5 days from this cold/flu, I decided to do a bike ride (20k) before attempting a run. Around the 8k mark, it started to get a little "buggy" on the trail. So, it took me swallowing one before I learned to keep my mouth shut. Due to the fact I'm still recovering from a "bug", it's a bit difficult for me to breathe through my nose. As I'm going through these little swarms of what seems to be mini flies, I held my breath and felt them smack against my sunglasses and face. It started to get to the point where I couldn't hold my breath much longer so I made the mistake of looking at the ground and just plowed through. What I didn't realize is that when I put my head down, that little opening between my sunglasses and face is just enough space for one of those bugs to get into and fly right in my eye! There I stood gouging my finger in my eyeball while I still felt it fluttering. Yuck! Finally, I dug it out... and inhaled another bug while I flicked it off my finger. After that, I chose to do my best to breathe through my nose so I can keep my head up and my mouth shut. Unfortunately, I didn't have any Kleenex with me... so I had to resort to the "unlady-like" method. If you don't know what this is, you may want to read my previous post. During one of my lesser-lady like moments, I wasn't paying attention and rode through a monster puddle. I don't have fenders. I ended up with mud-butt! Good thing I was on my way home. Oh well. Mid-way through my ride, I saw a huge herd of geese in this marshy area. So weird. I've been running/riding in this area a bunch of times and never saw them there before.

I was pretty stiff from the bike ride. So when I got back home, I stretched a bit, took an hour break and went back out for an easy 5k run/walk. There were a lot more people on the trail now and everyone seemed so happy. I've never smiled so much on a run before! Was pretty cool. The weather was nice and cool, too. My iPod music on the other hand, is not so cool. Not sure what I did but I hit something to make it alphabetical and it won't shuffle now. Listening to: The Monkees, then Mudvayne, Mushroomhead, Neil Diamond and then New Order is a little weird. lol. Anyway, for a first day back from a 5 day break, I felt pretty good on the run... just wish my nose would stop running!