helmy's riding log: back pain, MC and another dog-gone day!

I’m on MC today.....so it’s kinda bored to stay at home doing nothing......hurt my back when waking up this morning...that is if you call grinning my teeth in agony while attempting to get myself in sitting position as waking up....hehe......my wife woke me at 3am as I forgot to switch off the telly last night....tried to woke up but I had this sudden stinging at my back that puts me in dire pain and so my wife end up switching it off and me....went back to bed after taking pain killer tablet with a glass of water....hoping the pain would go as I wake up in the morning.....but that wasn’t to be...had the same difficulties this morning... only worse as it took me about 5 minutes to sit up straight...before dragging myself to the toilet to take my bath....I was in pain and so I SMS~ed my boss informing my intention to visit the panel doctor this morning....

Went to the clinic and the doctor gave me the day off....I’m not keen on going to work also as the pain was unbearable....went home after sending my wife to work and after taking the prescribed medication, I started writing this entry...have the whole day to myself...and I’m not planning to spend it taking a nap or doing nothing.....anyway...I need to take my mind of the pain.....perhaps writing this would ease it a bit...=p

Not sure how I got the back pain...didn’t do any heavy lifting last week....didn’t strain my back with excessive riding either....oh well......I guess it just happened...that’s how things are.....maybe....

Talking about excessive riding.......spent the last 2 days recce riding to Pulai Indah trail with Boboy...we were trying to find trails leading to Taman U from Pulai Indah....but failed on both attempts.....first attempt failed due to running out of time...my riding license expires at 12noon....the second was also due to running...away from a group of darned mutt! The recce trip was cut short as we encountered a bunch of cow’s herding dogs....wouldn’t want to find trouble so we decided to call it off.....hehe.....

me riding cautiously as always...eyes peeled for any potential danger...=p

Boboy checking out his GPS device

The first day we wandered deep into the plantation....with Boboy’s GPS device as our guide....but on the second day we discovered that we have totally took the wrong direction..instead of heading towards Taman U...we were actually heading towards Gelang Patah!....hahaha....guess that showed how poor our navigation skills was...hahaha....

nothing much in photo...the real ones looks tempting...hehe

crossing one of the many wooden bridges

Not wanting to waste our energy....we decided to take another route....heading the opposite direction from the previous day....I guess we were heading the right direction as we managed to get to the TNB power lines....as stated in Google Map. But we weren’t able to proceed further due to the mutt stumbling incident...hehehe...and so we went back to Pulai Indah...riding slowly towards Boboy’s house....the ride ended in less than an hour....hehehe....the shortest off road ride...ever....=p

We planned to continue riding to the trail in another 2 weeks time....why 2 weeks?....because we’re going to participate in the Gunung Pulai Hash next Sunday...hopefully by then, my back would recover...wouldn’t want to miss it...already missed the ECC Burung Hantu ride next Saturday...the organizer had closed the entry and also I didn’t managed to get my riding permit from the missus...I guess local event would suffice......maybe I could invite some other riders as well....Akmal for instance....