My sharkbite wound from a month ago is JUST NOW starting to mend up. Scab just starting to heal up. My knee is still worse than ever.. No riding, just a little paragliding. Sigh.. Sob… Hopefully, I can get in to see a specialist for my knee next week.
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Well, I thought the wrap worked… until the next day when I was in a car in the sitting position for 5 hours. Not sure whether it was the car ride or the biking that made the knee sore. But so far, I’ve stayed off the bike for the last few days and the knee is feeling better. We shall see how it does on my next 30 miler with the knee wrapped tighter than last time.
I’m at the Search Engine Strategies conference this week and it has been a great time so far. Google Dance last night was a rager to say the least. Tons of fun, tons of people, tons of alcohol, tons of nerds breaking it down on the dance floor. Those Googlers know how to do it right! Still recuperating with my buddies from last night’s rager. I wish my damn camera was working to take some photos! Grr… that’s IT! It’s time for a new Canon!
I’ll be heading back from San Francisco earlier than planned to go out to Marshall again this weekend for flying - which means no cycling again. But eh, it’ll be good for my knee to recuperate.
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So I went for a quick ride today. M suggested that I try wrapping my knee and riding - might help keep it stablized and ease the pain. So that’s exactly what I did. I wrapped it with a compression bandage pretty tight, and rode,.. and rode. Having been away from it for what seems like an eternity, today’s ride gave me an amazing feeling. Of course, I was riding alone, as usual, and not at home either. But riding alone gave me time to think. I really love cycling. I love it so much. Certain people that I thank (in my head, of course) to have introduced it into my life. I went about 25 miles - the most that I’d gone since the knee started hurting. Immediately iced it after the ride while I garfed down some leftover Thai food from last night’s dinner. We’ll see how the knee feels tomorrow morning…
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Nice and EZ spin around the lake today… 10 miles of spinning on my bike at cadence of 80+ on my easiest gear. There were a little bit of discomfort and I wanted to go a 3rd time around the lake, but the sun was setting so I stopped. The knee actually is not bad right now. I did ice it… We’ll see how it does next week.
Off to Dunlap for the mini-comp weekend of paragliding!
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Like the title of this post, my knee is jacked. Period. ARGH! Very frustrating. I went on a short easy ride to Malibu Lake and back - quick 20 miler - last night. My knee felt OKAY during the ride, felt a tiny bit unstable, so tried to keep my cadence up on my easy gears. Right after the ride, the knee felt OKAY, felt some tingling, figured it would be okay. That night though, errrrrg… pain in my knee. I couldn’t cross my legs at all. I had originally thought that it was the TFL so I had been stretching them like crazy for the last 10 days while I was off my bike. I was getting increasing range of motion on my knee, so I hoped that an easy ride would be okay… NOT! Oh..the pain…. I went to Vargo physical therapy for a brief treatment - he gave me some electric stim, ultrasound, and heat/ice treatment on my knee. It does feel a little better now, but DUDE… And stupid me - since it feels better, I’m tempted to ride the same route as yesterday again! I’m going to be going around the lake 10 times tomorrow. Easy and Flat. Hopefully, knee won’t get more jacked. Grrr….
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It’s been more than a week since I’ve been off my bike. My knee is better, but the pain isn’t completely gone. I’m going to try riding tomorrow evening to see how it will feel. Maybe it won’t be so bad if I stretch the crap out of the knees before I start my ride. As for my narly bike wound from last week, errr…. it’s still narly. I showed it to Mur over the weekend and her reaction said it all. “Oh Beauty! (she calls me ‘beauty’.) That’s going to be scarred for LIFE! You needed stitches!” Great… Too late… Scab is just now starting to form ever so slowly. I hope I got all the crap out of the wound before it closed up. Mur mentioned that I should have soaked it in Benadryl to get it to circulate inside the wound to clean. Oops… I suppose it doesn’t sting as much when I pour peroxide over it anymore, but fizzing is still there. I think the vitamine E capsules are helping. At least, I hope it’s helping. Sigh… Oh well. I won’t ride with a beginner group again… learned my lesson. I just pray that the scar won’t be so bad. Or else, I will tell people that it’s a shark bite. =P
Looks like we’re heading up to Dunlap to fly this weekend. We’ll see how THAT goes…
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