Life is sometimes decided for you.

 Sometimes Life decides for you...

I was debating for so long about doing the triathlon and today is the day it is happening. I have money set aside for it and was getting myself psyched up for it all week. Well instead of going to the triathlon I am headed to the DR. I woke up and my eye is puffed out and hurts again. It is not as bad as last time but I am not going to risk getting a worse infection in it. Even if I wanted to go after doing the triathlon I would have to wear my glasses and not be able to see when swimming in a lake and that sounds like a bad idea. I am bummed out about it as it was on my mind for so long and even though I debated on the cost I have the money to do it but I can not go because life decided it was not going to happen. 

This is not the end of this though I will be looking for another triathlon to do and if I do not find one then I will sign up for next years early. 

Eye issues wont stop the journey

I had a fun week aside from today with my eye problems. It was not as many hours as last week but there was a lot of rainy days where I had to ride slower or avoid areas all together because of downed trees and such. On the days I was not able to get my full normal ride in I ended up supplemented it with walking. I will say after getting into the mindset of walking to the store and not driving I really enjoy get out and walking. I know that walking is something other people enjoy but I got into the problem of driving to places I could walk and started to not get as much enjoyment out of walking. I used to start walking and think I would have already been at the place and not enjoy slower pace of a walk. Well after not driving places I would much rather walk or cycle to where ever I am going. When I am walking I have to look when crossing a street and pay attention but when drivig its paying attention to road and what other people are doing on the road. The amount of things that can go wrong while driving is so much higher than walking because of all the road users. If I text and walk the worst thing that could happen is a walk into something and or fall down. If I were to ever text and drive ( I do not use my phone in the car but just for an example ) I could end up causing lots of problems. You have to pay so much attention when you drive and I would now rather walk and take in my enviroment than drive. 

I am saying this because I am going to end up getting a lot more walking in again. I started getting a bit lazy about it again and was driving much more often when I could have walked or even cycled to places. It might take longer and I might be a bit sweatier but my body and I feel better about things in the long run. 

To go back to the morning rides and the rain the above image is an example of the kinds of things that have been recently cutting my rides a bit short and making me think about walking more often. The tree fell right on the bridge and blocked the path. I might have been able to go under it but I spent about 10 minutes seeing if I could move it aside. I know its a tree and I am not going to be able to lift it to move it but its on those railings and it did not break them so I figured maybe I could shift it out of the way for myself and others. I was able to shift it about 1 inch and noticed it was caught on other small trees so with out a saw it was not going to move. If your wondering why I would attempt to go on the bridge with a tree on it if the bridge was not stable and fell it would only be about 5 feet down. There is a small creek under there but its not enough to do much harm other than making you stink like garbage and make you need to shower ASAP. Half the time in the summer the creek is fully dry though all the rain we have been getting there is water down there but again its not deep. 

Anyway I have to get to my appointment and clear this eye problem up. Thank you very much for reading have and wonderful day!