here’s my stupidly laid bare.
so i wake up saturday morning last weekend, my throat is raging sore. the thing is, i have a bike race that afternoon, so i pop some vitamins, do the race and hope for the best. 2k from the finish in the race i attack, and while grinding my teeth in do or die frenzy, i crack a filling. end up third, making just enough money to pay for petrol and replacement of the filling.
wake up sunday, feeling pretty sick. wander around all day, thinking of my 2 hour run…and by mid afternnon the type a personality wins even though i know it’s a bad move. 20 mins into the run and i’m walking home. so i spend the next four days in a fever, fighting some dodgy flu. i’m only starting to feel human now, amd i’m hoping to emerege from under the doona soon. missed four days of work…back sore from coughing.
now if i’d stayed at home on saturday, i’d have better teeth, and probably headed the ful off at the pass. i knew it would happen too, hence i am a moron.
we’ve all been there. passed out after crossing the finish line and next thing you know I have strep. raced again the next wekend and ended up w/ a 104 temp and mono. missed 12 weeks of doing anything but napping for mono.
Nah, that’s not stupid!
Some of the stuff I’ve done is really stupid. Falling 30 feet out of a tree to near certain death, only to be saved by falling directly on to the top of a sheep standing in the shade of the same tree!. My brother said I couldn’t have come any closer to the centre of the sheep if I’d aimed. Better to be luck than good.
Skiing off a 25 foot cliff in a snow storm and blowing my knee apart. Having to ski the rest of the way to the lodge and ambulance on one ski. ( I was doing a sweep of the hill so I was last one down) That was stupid.
Drinking the worm…several times. That’s stupid.
Thinking I could do IM. Now THAT’s retarded!! 
ok ok…i mean i have done dumber things in my life…millions, but hey i’m feeling stupid over this tho. funny story about the sheep. once i thought it would be a great idea to tunnel under loose sand stoers left at a construction site. i was a kid, but hey…nothing like suffocation to change the colour of your day.