happy post-father's day, fellas!
i'm now 3.5 weeks post-stress fracture (i'll attempt running at 9 weeks), and this week had fewer miles on the bike due to chilly temps and a spate of flats intervening. i just don't enjoy riding when i'm cold (and remember last week's topic about enjoying what you're doing? bingo!), and it took several tube repairs/changes to finally find that pernicious sliver of glass, but now all is well. anyway, i racked up 184 miles on two wheels in three rides (okay, four rides, but one was just 9 miles, due to impending dark and that recurrent puncture, so it doesn't really count). roughly half of my week's miles took place during one day when i looped cayuga lake and then rode lead bike at a local race. sunday (the start of this week), i rode to the site of a trail race where i worked the finish line, which concluded with the most brutal hill i've ever ridden up -- the worst of it was only two miles long, but it included sections with 20% grade! it nearly did me in, but i made it! going home, i popped the bike in the back of my husband's car to go down that dangerous hill, but then rode the rest of the way back home (67 miles total, including a late-in-the-day hill that was only a mile at 9% grade -- piece of cake ;-) if the weather cooperates reasonably well, i hope to loop seneca lake this week, which will be just short of 100 miles if i start/end at home.
ah, range of motion: in an earlier life i was a dancer. now i'm a runner. need i say more?
L2B, i also have a heck of a time inflicting therapeutic self-hurt, but i do try to dig at angry bits of tendon and muscle as much as i can. i just wish i could do it more effectively.
mopak, your running adventures sound so delightful that they almost make up for the lack of sleep and all that driving.
sacto, i also have no direct advice, but do send you healing wishes. i agree with AK-53 that pushing no harder than what your body indicates is key, since it doesn't need any additional stressors now. if that means a short jog or just a walk, so be it.
AK-53, congrats on that age-graded win!