If I was still training and not doing the whole recovery thing this would have been week 14 out of a 20 week training program.
This is what my week would have looked like:
Tuesday
Swim a total of 2,300 yards completing a handful of different drills
Bike 1 hour and 30 minutes
Wednesday
40 minute run with VO2 max intervals
Thursday
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Archive for May, 2007
#13 It could have been
Posted in Early Recovery on May 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
#12 43k +
Posted in Hospital on May 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Holy $%&@…today I started opening insurance paperwork that had been piling up. One thing medical insurance is really good at is wasting trees with statement after statement.
I guess another thing their good at is keeping my ass out of the poor house! To date my medical bills have topped $43,000 from the accident. At some [...]
#11 No Expectations
Posted in Early Recovery on May 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I keep struggling with creating expectations for how I expect this recovery to progress. Its tough when your used to following a plan, setting a series of checkpoints & goals to measure progress.
This week I started looking at triathlons scheduled for September. I was thinking I could swim, run & skip the run or just [...]
#10 I Can Swim!
Posted in Recovery/Training on May 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
To set the stage, swimming was not something I was great at before the accident. I could make it from one end of the pool to the other in a decent amount of time but never felt all that comfortable or strong.
Tuesday evening Harmony & I made it to the pool. The whole process seemed [...]
#9 First Gym Workout
Posted in Recovery/Training on May 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Note to self or anyone reading this that might someday find them selfs on crutches.
When working out your upper body keep in-mind the following day you’ll need your arms to support your body weight on crutches…
Yep, you guessed it, I over did it a bit & my arm are pretty sore. I made my first [...]
