Free food for riding on the W&OD

[StopMeansStop]

Just open your mouth.

I must have swallowed a lb. of bugs.

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[Greenbelt]

Yep, excellent protein boost for mouth breathers along the rivers on the NE branch trail too.

[acc]

Gasp! I was too mortified to say anything but I accidentally ate not one, but two bugs out near Sterling on Monday while on the W&O. One was crunchy. Tasted worse than power bars.

Ann

[Joe Chapline]

@acc 3872 wrote:

Gasp! I was too mortified to say anything but I accidentally ate not one, but two bugs out near Sterling on Monday while on the W&O. One was crunchy. Tasted worse than power bars.

Ann

Funny! Power bars prepare cyclists for whatever might fly into their mouths. Lots of brown marmorated stink bugs around these days. I didn’t realize they flew until they showed up at my house recently.

[Dirt]

I like the crunchy ones.

[brendan]

I’m in a hurry, so I always get the bugs to go…the gnats manage to be stuck all over my body by the time I get home…

[baiskeli]

It’s a little-known fact, but Power Bars are actually 83 percent bug guts. So it’s about the same.

[acc]

@baiskeli 3912 wrote:

It’s a little-known fact, but Power Bars are actually 83 percent bug guts. So it’s about the same.

Which leaves me wondering about the other 17%, industrial waste?

Bug crunching best,
ann

[PotomacCyclist]

I notice that the gnats (not the Nats) tend to come out around dusk and sunset. A lot of them at Hains Point. I’ve also seen huge clouds of bugs in the area by the 14th St. Bridge and the Jefferson Memorial. Some of them hide out in your hair for the rest of the ride.

What’s even worse than eating a bug is breathing them in. I don’t think it’s recommended to get bugs into your lungs, but I’ll have to check on that.

[acc]

I’ve heard of black lung and brown lung but before tonight never bug lung.

Happy trails,
ann

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