After short track, I rode downtown and home Wednesday-Friday, I rode out to Forest Park, rode at a hard pace (for me) for 2 hours, rode home; rode 2 hours in the west hills on Saturday and then did some mountain biking on Hood on Sunday. And now it’s short track day [...][...]
Archive for the ‘Injury’ Category
July 19th, 2010 - 9:50 am § in Injury, Spinal Injury
Back pain; or How I’m trying not to become a junkie
So I rode Larch, and then went to Sandy on Sunday, and overall I’d say my back is doing pretty darn well on the bike, considering. However, cooking/dish-washing and sleeping are still extremely painful. I wake up every morning after about 5 or 6 hours of sleep in pain, and I spend the rest of [...]
I love bikes
A few weeks ago, I started riding my road bike on my trainer, which was interesting; my back felt OK, but my heart rate was just off the charts, and I was barely pedaling. I was doing 10 minute intervals (10 “on”, 5 “off, although my heart rate was generally super high all the time[...]
June 28th, 2010 - 9:48 pm § in Injury, Spinal Injury
3 weeks down, starting to go nutty
To those of you who have had to lay off the bike for months due to injuries/surgery and so forth: I salute you. Because fuuuuck I’m going on week 4 and I’m about to gnaw my legs off. I have learned some interesting things over the last 3 weeks, that I must admit have been pretty [...][...]
Why is Physical Therapy so hard?
As a person who has had many, many half-assed attempts at physical therapy, I have to ask myself: Why is it so hard to stick with it? I know I’m not alone here. Granted, most of the time I could not keep going to the therapist for monetary reasons, so I would get my sheet [...][...]
June 22nd, 2010 - 12:37 pm § in Injury, Spinal Injury
Looking forward – Recovery Plan A
Well. Now that my 2010 racing season is essentially over, I’m starting to wonder what exactly what my fitness goals and cycling adventures will be once I’m back in action. I plan on trying out the road bike come July 1st-sh, and the mountain bike sometime a few weeks later, depending on [...]
June 21st, 2010 - 10:35 am § in Deep Thoughts, Food & Diet, IT Band, Injury, Precision Nutrition, Spinal Injury
Two weeks down
It’s been two weeks and a day since The Incident. Saturday I managed to walk to Mount Tabor, although I had to sit on a bench for a while when I got there, and walk back. Yesterday I walked to the Academy Theater, watched a movie, and walked back, about 1.2 miles each way. The [...][...]
June 16th, 2010 - 11:49 am § in Spinal Injury
Recovery is hard
What is harder then racing for 6 hours on single and double track over rocks and up impossible climbs? Sitting on the couch, watching the sunshine through the window, wishing you were there and resting and recovering. So it’s been over a week since The Incident, and I am now able to walk aroun[...]
June 10th, 2010 - 10:30 am § in Spinal Injury
Day 5 – not crazy…yet.
First of all, THANK YOU to all the people who have stopped by. I don’t care if you bring stuff, I just like to see people and chat! So, I’ve been on the couch since I got home Saturday night, it is now Thursday. Now that I’m off the percocet, I’m much more aware of the [...][...]
June 8th, 2010 - 8:45 am § in MTB, Spinal Injury
How not to jump
I have a stub of a blog entry for the sister’s stampede race, but that’s going to have to wait. Saturday I set out with a few friends to finally ride Surveyor’s+Knebal+8 mile. The trails were in absolutely perfect shape, the temps were in the 70s and sunny after a long week of rain[...]
