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Awesome news both! Good job. Payoff for all the work.

Yeah... it's all connected through the knee area, or it seems like it is. The IT band issues I've been battling are weird like that too. Where the pain manifests has no obvious connection to the bands, but clearly if they tighten up it pulls other "stuff" out of position and add in a bunch of repetive motion (pedaling) and the result is "ouch". It was starting to kick in on my right leg today. If I start trying to bang long distances again- 40 to 60 miles- I'll HAVE to figure out WTF because it starts to kick in around 25-30 miles just like clockwork.

Tiny Elvis, my wife and I got 3-ish miles in on snow packed and icy trails- without traction devices on you wouldn’t make it far

Repetitive stress always warrants extra attention and rest breaks as the years add up. Give it a rest before you push into the danger zone and 40-60 may be a breeze. You go just as far, it just takes a little longer. It's not a race.

Yesterday was a good day....Shoveled and pushed snow for around 1.5hours, very limited back strain and the knee was just going along for the ride. Odd thing to me was the PT people and the Docs never mentioned the calf when it came to the knee. They looked at the pics and said that is a pretty good knee. Don't know why it hurts. A month or so ago, I just thought you never do calf specific so why not. Lucky....


Addition: And the more I do yoga stretching, the better the flexibility. It isn't just for the girls.

Oh but I'm a big fan of gals in yoga poses. Haha.

I've moved away from rides that long. I think it becomes almost counterproductive, or perhaps to say it better, it opens the door to other issues that might make the gains not worth it. My 50+ rides were very therapeutic for my noggin rehab. One of the strangest symptoms of the [bleep] injury was a very tangible anxiety that I wasn't actually ME. Weird stuff, but it was as real as it gets at the time, as in for many months, and actually if you've BTDT, it makes some sense. I dissolved for several hours. I can't remember any of it. When I re-assembled (that's what it felt like, coming to in the ER) I was very different. Was I still Jeff? It was certainly questionable. ANYWAY, I can report that there ain't nothing like suffering in a body, to re-anchor your "self" in that body. So I suffered, a lot, and it was awesome.

But now I'm doing much more intense but shorter rides. My 27 miler is a brutal route. I'll try to put up a chart of it. It's not for the faint of heart, literally, but it's "only" takes 2+ hours. 50 miles takes forever and I question whether that kind of endurance training is actually net-positive in the long run.

(Always best to end punnily)

5.5 miles and 1600’ of gain in a light rain, which will very shortly be a light snow

Legs today for me.

week 4 Wendler deadlifts 3x5, overhead press 3x5, dips, pull-ups, core

Nice 5-mile hike w/ Cyn

UB for me, last time in the gym for a while, but............

"I'll be back."

15 miles roughly half with microspikes, half with snowshoes

Surgery?

I've been Crossfitting religiously for the last 2 years straight. Am in the best shape of my life. I'm a lifelong long distance runner and have all but given it up to Crossfit. I love the constantly varied workouts. Have done some things in there that I never thought I would ever be able to do. Bench 260, Deadlift 425, Back squat 325, double unders with a jump rope, bar muscle ups, etc. Gonna help me out when I hit west TX this year with mulie mike for aoudad sheep!

Stair master 20min

Squats 3x5–seated overhead press 3x5–calf raises 3x5–BP 5x5-roll-outs 3x20

Back stretches-30 min—should have been doing this much earlier

Recoil-300x——fun part of the day

I cut, carried,, and stacked a truck load of firewood.

So, take that..........

That's no small thing.

I'll be starting in on firewood for 2019 here shortly.

Be careful!

Tomorrow.

Here's hoping you do well and heal quickly Smoke!

Don't say anything saucy about the cute nurse under anesthesia. She'll #MeToo your ass.



Godspeed, SP!

Thanks Guys. Those nurses have nothing to fear from me, but I am concerned that they'll try to take advantage while I'm drugged.

Did you end up back with the original, more invasive doctor/procedure?