Now it's been a while ago since I last took alcohol and I was starting to forget how ill it made me. I'm in self imposed training for a charity cycle event and like to do fifty or sixty miles a week on my pushie ( only had it a couple months, not having ridden one since I was sixteen and that's forty years ago ) Anyway I've taken recently to doing a long un on a Saturday. ...at least thirty miles. Yesterday I went to the coast. Shoulda been just 32 miles but if 32 is good then 42 gotta be better. .(see where that thinking comes from ) And it was blisteringly hot. Death valley hot. Furnace hot. So I took a quart of water and a pint of protein shake. Ten miles from home and all the water is gone as is all the shake......and I'm getting sunburned. Eight miles to go and I'm sweating like a spaniard at a bullfight. Five miles and the sweat is so salty I can taste it. Three miles the sweat runs into my eyes and blinds me. Two miles and I'm not sweating any more. I go to the store and buy two litres of milk and two litres of water. I sat in the carpark and drank a litre of each to rehydrate and get some protein in me. It took both to give me enough hydration to start sweating again. And I was serously sunburned. A long cool shower followed then lots of moisturiser on the sunburn. An hour on thr bed. Last night I had the sweats, stomach cramps, loose bowels, nausea and nott much sleep due to over exercise, mild sun stroke and bad sunburn. Just like coming down offe the booze! God I don't wanna go back there.