If you've ever wired your major muscle groups to a power socket as a cackling scientist flips the switch, you might begin to understand the pain I was going through.
Actually, if that's your idea of fun, you might not. My pain was caused not by weird voltage experiments, but by huge cramps as my dehydrated body attempted to tackle Europe's toughest mountain bike race.
My screams rang out over the Alps as I tumbled from my cycle, spasms in legs, arms and torso scrunching me into a ball of agony so tight that at one point I began rolling down the hillside. 
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