I have taken it a bit easy that last week and a half or so. I had access to a car for work, we had a long weekend up here in Canada and I was just being a bit lazy.

This week started on Tuesday with a very windy morning that continued to yesterday and I had some really tough riding.

This morning I got up and started getting ready for work. My wife asked me what all the grunting was about and I realized that I was having real trouble with sore legs. I had not noticed it yesterday but the riding in the wind after taking it easy had done it’s job to put my legs through the ringer.

I took a couple aspirin this morning, hopped on the bike to a breezeless  dark start to my ride and by the time I arrived I felt great.

I know that sometimes we get sore from our exercise and although I am not much of a fan of any pills other than regular supplements I sometimes find that aspirin will do the trick to make me feel better. If there is anything that will kill motivation quickly it is sore muscles. When you have sore muscles your body will come up with almost any excuse not to do what you need to.

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My wife has been taking high dosages of aspirin tow or three times a day for the last few months as she had some clots show up on her legs and the doctor, after having me give her injections to thin her blood, gave her this prescrition for a generic type of aspirin derivative that she is taking. As always I scoured the internet to find more information on taking aspirin and I have copied the following info from both Wikipedia and the FDA in case you have a simeilar interest. The wiki info is an outline on aspirin itself and the FDA info is a bunch of questions and answers about aspirin.

Aspirin or acetylsalicylic acid (acetosal) is a drug in the family of salicylates, often used as an analgesic (against minor pains and aches), antipyretic (against fever), and anti-inflammatory. It has also an anticoagulant (”blood-thinning”) effect and is used in long-term low-doses to prevent heart attacks.

Low-dose long-term aspirin irreversibly blocks the formation of thromboxane A2 in platelets, producing an inhibitory effect on platelet aggregation, and this blood-thinning property makes it useful for reducing the incidence of heart attacks. Aspirin produced for this purpose often comes in 75 or 81 mg dispersible tablets and is sometimes called “Junior aspirin”. High doses of aspirin are also given immediately after an acute heart attack. These doses may also inhibit the synthesis of prothrombin and may therefore produce a second and different anticoagulant effect.

Several hundred fatal overdoses of aspirin occur annually, but the vast majority of its uses are beneficial. Its primary undesirable side effects, especially in stronger doses, are gastrointestinal distress (including ulcers and stomach bleeding) and tinnitus. Another side effect, due to its anticoagulant properties, is increased bleeding in menstruating women. Because there appears to be a connection between aspirin and Reye’s syndrome, aspirin is no longer used to control flu-like symptoms in minors.[1]

Aspirin was the first discovered member of the class of drugs known as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), not all of which are salicylates, though they all have similar effects and a similar action mechanism.
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