I'm going to do a little calculation here: you said you rode back as the sun rose. At this time of year at this latitude, that puts you at the Jack In The Box around 5:30am. You were unable to get to sleep at 11:30am. You had four caffeine pills (200mg each, I'm guessing) and one Red Bull (approximately 90mg).
A while back, Jim stayed up for 62 hours straight. I calculated for him how much caffeine it took to simulate sleep. Using the "over-waking hours" model from that calculation, you'd have to stay awake for more than four days to use up all that caffeine. Now, obviously the body has better ways to deal with it, and you're bigger than Jim, but the point still stands: that is such a ridiculous amount of caffeine that you'd be feeling like shit right now even without taking any E. With that much fucking caffeine in your system, you're lucky this didn't happen:
Back then, Jim took a total of 360mg of caffeine to stay up 62 continuous hours. And as far as sleep deprivation goes, Jim's a Kenyan Lance Armstrong. You're a guy who jogs twice a week who just ran the entire Tour De France in his socks. Of course you're going to feel bad.
Swearing off drugs and alcohol and cigarettes is nice and all, but the bad times are really the result of doing dumb things with those substances--and not simply from using them at all.
It's not really me swearing it off just because of the bad experience but primarily because of how I feel on the other substances even in neutral circumstances. I'm gonna try it out for a while, see how I do, how I change, and decide whether it will be permanent or not.
Wait, are you trying to say I'm lucky I wasn't part of Saved by the Bell? Because I did get an offer from them when I was like 1 year old, but I negotiated a deal with NBC for a 2012 remake instead.
A while back, Jim stayed up for 62 hours straight. I calculated for him how much caffeine it took to simulate sleep. Using the "over-waking hours" model from that calculation, you'd have to stay awake for more than four days to use up all that caffeine. Now, obviously the body has better ways to deal with it, and you're bigger than Jim, but the point still stands: that is such a ridiculous amount of caffeine that you'd be feeling like shit right now even without taking any E. With that much fucking caffeine in your system, you're lucky this didn't happen:
Back then, Jim took a total of 360mg of caffeine to stay up 62 continuous hours. And as far as sleep deprivation goes, Jim's a Kenyan Lance Armstrong. You're a guy who jogs twice a week who just ran the entire Tour De France in his socks. Of course you're going to feel bad.
Swearing off drugs and alcohol and cigarettes is nice and all, but the bad times are really the result of doing dumb things with those substances--and not simply from using them at all.
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The smoking has got to go though.
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Is that what you meant?
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