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Knee pain after overdoing it!

 Starting with the fun! The other week I was doing so well with excersizing and had a blast riding in the rain one morning.  Riding in the pouring rain is fun there is no one around and you get to just take in the ride. Sure I got wet but it was not cold out so being wet was fine. I was very happy ater this ride even thinking nothing is going to stop my morning rides not even pouring rain.  Then I started lifting again....  I do not know what happened but I put the weights on the rack and got ready to do squats. I went down for my first one and my right knee felt a little off nothing too bad but just off. When I finished my 5th squat it hurt. I thought to myself it must have been just the position I was in I will lay off of it for the day and try again. The next day I went for my morning ride and the knee pain was back but this time it was on my bike. It was not bad enough to keep me from riding that day so I kept going. This was a bad idea because later that da...

Taking out the kayak

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I took out my kayak! I had a few hours free the other day and decided it was time to take out my kayak. I have had this kayak for over 10 years now and I used to use it every weekend but I moved and had kids and just stopped using it. It is an inflatable kayak that I am a bit suppirsed it has not had issues in the years I have owned it. I tested it out before heading to the lake and it pumpped up fine so I went out to the lake near me and just set off for a quick lap around the lake.  The lake is about 2 miles from one shore line to the other and 1/3 of a mile wide or so. I did not get out any tools to measure it but there is enough space to kayak around and have some fun but its not a huge lake that would take all day to paddle around. I ened up going from the boat launch area to the other end and back in about an hour and that was a lot of just sitting there taking photos and taking in the moment.   It was a good time paddling around the lake and I got some fun photos from i...