Back in October, I rolled my foot at home and snapped the 5th metatarsal. I spent 2 weeks on crutches, the 7 more in a boot. While in the boot, I went back to lifting instead of swimming biking and running. After the boot came off, I began rehabbing the foot with cycling on trainer at home. In the last 4 weeks I have been slowly adding walk running to workouts. The foot itself is getting stronger, but it in no way done healing. It's simply been a tough week. I came down with a cold Sunday evening, the day my wife returned home from a week away. Meetings at work and an evening French Class final exam, meant I had to suck it up. Then I spend two days on the couch with body aches that accompanied this knock me on my ass bug. Yesterday, my first day back to work was full of meetings and I still felt a little off still on DayQuil (4th day in a row). Mid-morning it looked liked I had enough time to get in my noon recess but I my head w...
A librarian at a university research library enjoying life in motion like running, biking, gravel bike races, century rides, triathlons, motorcycles, plus hiking and camping with my wife and our two dogs. There may be reminisces from Chicago, Montreal and my new life at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.