I waited until about 20:00 tonight to allow for the smothering humidity to die down.   It was still miserable but the humidity was not going to deter my exhilaration today.  I ran for the first time in 5 weeks.  It felt GREAT!  Only 1 mile but that didn’t matter.  Getting out and doing what I [...]

As of today my freshly repaired and painted Trek is not here…bummer.  I thought about running but decided to see how my shoulder would hold up to 90 minutes of mowing.  If I can mow surely I can run.  Desperation yes, correlation maybe.  Anyway, it felt good to work up a sweat outside instead of inside [...]

It’s the middle of the summer and here I am doing another recumbent bike and stepper workout.  I feel I could easily ride a bike if I had one.  That would help with the monotony and give me a much better workout.  I don’t feel ready to run yet.  Oh well, at least I won’t [...]

 
My 3 week follow-up appointment with my MD was today.  Nothing exciting except that now I have no range of motion restrictions and a 10# lifting restriction from floor to waist.  So what I am allowed to do is slowly growing.  There is still some obvious healing to do (as you can see from the [...]

I just got a call from Rich at R&M Cyclery.  TREK IS FIXING MY BIKE!  They just need to know what color I want the frame painted.  I guess instead of touching up the paint they have to just paint it a solid color.  My choices were silver, white, red, blue, black, orange, or yellow.  [...]

Since I have been on the DL I’ve done nothing but eat and drink beer.  I have been too nervous to stand on the scales until this morning.  Interestingly I still weigh my marathon weight.  Either my metabolism is still high or I have lost muscle mass (which weighs more than fat).  I guess it [...]

I stopped by R&M today to check on the progress of my bike.  Rich gave me some good news, I think.  He said the bike was stripped and frame shipped off to Trek headquarters.  Trek thinks they might be able to fix my frame (is that a good thing?).  There is some kind of melting/gluing process [...]

While everyone else was out running, swimming, or cycling and enjoying the beautiful weather I was stuck at home feeling sorry for myself.  My wife is using my disability to catch up on all the things she can’t do while I am out training.  I don’t blame her and would do the same thing myself.  [...]

Same workout, different day.  I did, however, increase the resistance on the exercise bike.  The increased effort actually felt good.  My legs were tired when I returned home……what a pitty.

Just like banging my head against the wall I rode the bike for 30 minutes followed by the stepper x 15 minutes.  To add salt to the wound I drove by Dan on the way home.  He was retruning from “the hardest ride yet”.  He filled me in on the details just to add to [...]