{"id":17525,"date":"2013-08-22T22:36:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T02:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17525"},"modified":"2013-08-22T23:09:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T03:09:41","slug":"flying-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/22\/flying-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"

While riding the Macomb Orchard Trail<\/a> this out to Armada evening around dusk (Strava data<\/a>) some manner of insect hit my right helmet strap and the side of my face. This has left me with a rather painful, slightly swollen, bright pink sideburn area.<\/p>\n

I’d really like to know what it was that got me. Throughout this part of the ride — somewhere just east of the old train trestle<\/a> — there were a number of large jellybean-size dark insects hovering over the trail. When I’d approach (at 18MPH) they seemed to veer towards my face, almost as if they were IR<\/a>-seeking. I’d dodged a few of them, but one got my face. Riding along, looking at the scenery, I suddenly heard a sharply interrupted buzzing in front of my ear, almost as if something was caught in the helmet strap.<\/p>\n

Right as I reached up and brushed \u00a0it away I felt a sharp pain on the side of my face, and I knew that something stung me. Having been stung before<\/a>\u00a0and regularly riding in deer fly areas I’m not unfamiliar with such interactions, but this one is different. Sitting here writing this I keep having waves of pain from that spot, and there’s creeping pain up to my temple and over behind my ear.<\/p>\n

I seem to recall that Jeremy<\/a> got stung by something out at River Bends a month or so back, and it was red and painful for quite a while. I wonder if this is the same insect… But what is it that’d just hover over the warm air rising off of trails, waiting to strike? A horse fly? Some sort of bizarre mutant June Bug<\/a>? I really don’t know…<\/p>\n

I thought about grabbing one out of the air to see what it was, but I didn’t want to risk my hand getting hit as well. For now Ibuprofen,\u00a0diphenhydramine, and a bit of beer are doing a fine job keeping it under control. Hopefully the pain disappears by morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While riding the Macomb Orchard Trail this out to Armada evening around dusk (Strava data) some manner of insect hit my right helmet strap and…<\/p>\n

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