Today's bike stats - 16.91 Miles - 54:07 - 18.7 mph - HR: 134 avg - 920 FT elevation.
Last Friday I had the bright idea that I was going to attempt to ride my bike, in its currently broken state of only two gears (hard, and really hard - since I'm stuck in the smallest 12 tooth cog in the rear)
Well, I wasn't anticipating a 30-35 mph ice cold headwind coming down the canyon. That rendered the journey nearly impossible, since I was traveling at a max speed of 1-3 mph and nearly falling over every few feet with large trucks zooming past me while trying to stay on the non-existent shoulder. NOT HAPPENING! I made it about .33 miles in 4-5 minutes and turned around. It would have been a gnarly enough climb with just the broken gear, but the headwind was too much.
Anyway, I got a good ride in this morning and felt good.
Then this afternoon I got some great news from my ART/chiropractic/PT therapist. He diagnosed my foot issue as a muscle issue around the cuboid, not a stress fracture. He did some work on it which was painful and felt good (oxymoron?) and told me he wants me to run 5-6 miles tomorrow on it!! And to stay away from asphault and cement for now!! What more could I have asked for?
"Sorry...doctors orders, I have to go trail running in the mountains tomorrow." BUMMER!!!
Well, I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but I have to admit, they're up. On today's ride as I rode up closer and closer to the foothills of the front range, all I could do was stare up at Bear Peak, Green Mountain, South Boulder Peak, and all the other countless peaks and inwardly long to go run to the tops.
So to hear that he had another client who had the exact same symptoms and healed in a week with his treatment, was encouraging to hear.
Keeping my fingers crossed this week, I have another appointment on Thursday and I"m going to go running once or twice in the mean time.
Interestingly, with this pain, it never has hurt when I've been running, just walking around.
