MrBalky Heavy Industries » rehab

1st trip back (not so baby steps)

mrbalky — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:35:03 +0000

Way back when; seems like the dawn of time now; I was told by a famous and skilled surgeon that it would be 6 months after the surgery before I could start to work on getting back to my previous fitness level. He was about right. 6 months, and my first bike trip out to Moab with the team. I took my place at the back of the peloton.

A couple bad crashes, and cleaned a couple things I’ve never managed before. I’ve had better trips, but I’ve also had worse. My knee held up pretty well; I joined the body armor crew, though just knee pads. I was mighty grateful at least once.

We checked out the shiny new Free Lunch trail in GJ on the way out. I didn’t hit the big stuff, but had a little fun anyway:

So long old pal…

mrbalky — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:35:56 +0000

I won’t lie; I’m gonna miss you and the good times we had. Like parking directly in front of Target on Christmas Eve.

And I’ll never forget the Saturday night we freaked out Kate and Joseph by driving past open spaces downtown. Ah, the look in their eyes when we picked up the best spot in the garage.

Sniff…

Baby steps

mrbalky — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:31:36 +0000

My knee has been feeling pretty good in the last week, aligning this weekend with warm temps and very little wind, so I put flats on it and took the hardtail out for a spin. I gotta say that after years with clipless, the flats just killed me. Or maybe that was the surgery.

Eventually I got to a section of trail still in meltdown; PPDM (postponed due to mud).

Mmmmm…. Beer.

mrbalky — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:17:45 +0000

When I returned from surgery in Vail, my friends Bob & Becky came by to help set up my living room bed command center, and brought me a fine selection of special brews. Well, call me chicken if you want, but I didn’t want to mix the Oxycontin and alcohol.

Last night I finally got around to one of them. Stone Ruination IPA. Man was it good.

And we made it to midnight! (eastern time)