On a hopeful note, this past Sunday we rode a route which we'd ridden in October 9 years ago with a different group. We were 7 minutes slower this time. This seems a very good sign. We are starting to get back in shape but still have a long way to go. Now that Covid is calming down again, we hope to get back in the gym next week. We were working out in the gym 2 hours a week in 2013, and I had a note on that ride, "We were strong."
On a different subject, I was getting up to pee in the night every 2 - 2-1/2 hours. I started doing Kegels, but that didn't seem to help much. I've been taking 3 or more grams of HMB for about a month now and I'm only peeing once or twice a night. I'm just as hydrated, but my unconscious mind just doesn't get stimulated to wake me up. I don't pee the bed, either! A wild guess is that the Kegeling has made my pelvic floor muscles stronger.
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