Workouts Can Have Limits Due To Conditions, Time To Respect Your Limits

My feet are up on the coffee table.

I have taken a pause, I'm expecting this one to be a short one.

See the thing is I have a rule.  Been working out in, lets call it broadly, motion sports for decades.

I am an endurance athlete.  I used to run 10 Km three times a week at Valley Forge National Park.  There's a hill there that is about 30 degree incline and I just charged up that.

Transitioned to Inline Skating, then to Cycling, which I am currently doing.  Before my most recent benching I was up to a marathon any time I got on.  4 times a week was not unheard of.

My inline skating was the same.  I did 24,500 miles total career.

All that humble bragging is that I know what my limits are.  Don't workout outdoors when you are pushing your body through three dimensions when the conditions aren't good.  A workout takes 3 to 3 plus hours.

So why am I bothered so much by it?  Don't know, but the bogey has been met.

I checked the local forecast for the park I workout at and the base winds were 20 mph, gusts at 26, rain is expected.  The winds the last two days have been intense enough to knock me off my balance into a fence once.  The last dog walk, I got hit by rain twice.  Icky Weather.  (TM)

Having been picked up and thrown by similar winds once before I am hesitant.

No seriously, I'm a 195 pound guy, not small.  I'm a big guy, a fit 6'4" and 195#.  193cm, 88kg.  I was literally launched by a gust into a Mangrove Swamp in Key West by a very similar condition.  Gusts will do nasty things to you and the dislocated finger I had still feels different than the one that wasn't.

Too many injuries over the years in sports mean you have hard limits.

I was looking at the clock and saying to myself that I could squeeze in a workout and saw those wind numbers.  Gusts off the ocean will blow right through two sides of the park.  What goes up must come down, and the trail is a big square.    Should be fun to "wind surf" going west, but you have to come back into that wind.  More importantly getting hit broad side by a gust means that you could be knocked over.

I have been knocked over far too many times.  Three titanium bars and at least 17 screws in my clavicles is enough.

I'll leave the trails until conditions improve.  I am not complaining.  After all the bike can use a tune up, and I know Rack likes that.  I will sit on the floor and he plops next to me as I wrench the contraption that has its own parking space in the dining room.