Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Crash and Burn-Live and Learn

Catchy title, eh? 

Sunday was a fabulous day. Janean and I took our bicycles out to Smithville Lake, they have put in several miles of great trails that are worth checking out, and rode about 11 miles. Less than 4 miles in there was a bit of a problem though, I crashed. Not your typical fall off the bike crash, but the kind where I didn't have enough for breakfast crash. Good to know for Sunday's "big" ride. I had a bowl of cereal and an english muffin, I knew to get a hotdog while we were at the gas station, but I just didn't feel like it. It was ugly, I took up a lot of time just sitting there eating a clif bar and drinking all of the water. Then Janean had the nerve to say, "you have bodily limitations." Man, what a jerk, I'll show her bodily limitations. I'm not really sure what I mean by that, I just need to work on distance stuff more, you know, train this old body and stuff. Maybe at Sunday's bike ride I can score one of the jerseys for the diabetics and steal their snacks. After nearly swacking some deer and squirrels, we made it half way and ate some beef jerky. We rested for a few minutes, then headed back. The ride back was much better. 

I can't wait til I have a real bike and some of those sweet bars that stick out the front so I can relax a bit (the point of the photo). There were a few tricky hills, but we somehow made it all the way back to the truck and felt really good about the whole ordeal. I'm really excited to do more "long" weekend rides this summer.


Monday, June 1, 2009

Slippery When Wet

I've been MIA and give my apologies. I know everyone is checking in everyday and facing some serious disappointment when they see I've not posted anything new.

My exercising had been dwindling to only a couple of times a week, that's the truth. Mostly bike rides, some running. Now that it's warming up, we are going to the lake quite a bit (3 out of the last 4 weekends) which means I'm getting to swim again. I'm pretty excited about that. But there seems to be a problem.

I've somehow injured my foot. I can't think of anything that I did that would have caused it to hurt so stinking much. It started a little over a week ago, right under my big toe near the first "knuckle". It would go away then come back several hours later for a few hours at a time. It wasn't too big of a deal, but over the course of last week it started hurting a ton, more in the arch and stuff. On Saturday I was swimming, with a 4 year old (thank goodness we had life vests on), and it cramped up so bad my foot looked weird and I could hardly move even my leg. My toes were all stuck in funny positions and stuff. I've tried wearing different shoes, but none of that has helped. Anyone have any ideas what could be causing this or what I can do to help it heal? Staying off of my feet and resting is out of the question, lucky for me, I still have a job, for now.

The Tour De Cure is in 2 weeks and I sure want this awful pain to be gone for it.