First ride of 2005

I finally got out for my first ride this year. I have been doubling up the efforts. This week while I am off, I will hike and ride each day. I found myself to be quite tired after the short ride. There are no easy rides around home. Lots of rolling hills which means I am either coasting or creeping up the side with my heart thumping. I got in a 2 hour ride yesterday with a 4 mile up the mountain hike. I am supposed to get a call to go on a hike today. No candy or peanut butter the past few days but I have eaten bread. I have to cut that part out also. The next two or three days have rain forecasted. I hope they are wrong. I need to get a goal for the trip if I am to know if I am making progress. I had thought that I might get to where I can ride the Wiregrass road out to the mountain and up on top and back. That would be about 16 miles on a mountain bike. Hopefully that would be a good level to go road biking. But the constant pedaling of a road bike is a different thing. I need to get time in the gym on the Airdyne. Now the trick is, I won't be in a race with anyone. I will have all day to ride the 40 or so mile loop back to camp. One day is a 60 miler. Now with Florida, daylight begins early and lasts later than here. So I'd have 12 hours to do 60 miles. Average 5 miles an hour and you are there. Do 10 miles and hour and you can make it in 6 hours with several rest stops. Other than the pressure on the backside, it won't be that bad.

There is an African proverb that says "when death finds you, may it find you alive".

On July 31st, I died.... After having several weeks of discomfort in my neck and jawline, I made an appointment to see my PCP to determine what was going on. The consensus seemed to center around a gall bladder problem. But he suggested that we should rule out cardiac. Once I got over to the hospital, I had a wait of 20 minutes or more before I was sent up to my room. Immediately I was taken for a chest x-ray. Once I got back I saw my nurse and the lab tech were there and I lay down to let her get the blood. As I leaned back, I felt a wave of nausea and everything went quiet and dark. I became aware again after a short period of time, I'm unsure how long. and from there it was a lengthy process to be transported to Grandview where I received a heart catherization and ultimately, bypass grafts. It was literally like hitting the off switch on your computer.

Island Walk

I always try to help Rachael with Hubbard/Rockford if asked. They had me down for 3 days but at last minute asked for the other day. Work at Rockford is slow so working isn't hard, but not following my usual routine tired me out a bit. I still had some work I could take care of up in Cullman. Some bushhog work and other little items but the high temps held me back a bit. I did ride my bike a little and got in some of my walking in addition to some chores. Max needed to be delivered to Charlotte, SC for his drum major camp. I volunteered to take him. I was glad to be able to perform this chore for him but the long trip up and back combined with extra heavy traffic in the Atlanta are, which extended to within 30 miles of Alabama, combined to really tire me out. There had been a problem with my left rear wisdom tooth for over a year, so I decided I should get it taken care of before I wound up isolated somewhere in PEI. The extraction didn't appear to be problematic until just be...

Altras

So I've gotten around to buying those Altra Zero Drop running shoes and have begun the transition program to get used to them. My only problem so far has been that sore gluteus muscle I got from the scooter falling on me. But I've managed two days of running and will continue to extend my distance until I get up to something near the training program for the Half Marathon. I don't know if Joe has signed us up for the run or not.

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