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Healing Points
Today marks the 8th week since surgery. Weeks 4-7 felt like stagnation in a sense. There was gradual improvement, barely noticeable, and I concluded that I was a little behind schedule. Some of that...
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The Fine Art of Crutch Walking
Today I received the terrific news that I have graduated down to one crutch. Of course crutches are a necessary evil for anyone recovering from surgery, especially when a broken bone is involved, but...
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Water Does a Body Good
Have I mentioned how much I love physical therapy? Of course I have! Sure, it is painful, but the therapists are just tremendous, helpful people, and I can feel progress with every visit. The latest...
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These Shoes Were Made For Walking
If someone told me years ago that I would someday write a blog post about the ability to walk, I would have called them crazy. That’s just something we take for granted. But when you’ve spent 10 weeks...
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Planning the Comeback Tour
Over the last couple of weeks, I have improved dramatically. This makes sense based on what the doctor and the physical therapists told me. Once my bones and cartilage healed, the rest would fall into...
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Week 12: Getting Closer
The last few weeks have consisted of three things: Rehab, Rest, and Repeat. Each week I would improve, and each week the rehab would get just a little bit tougher. In that way, this schedule resembles...
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Ticket to Ride
That is my bike in the messy trunk of my car, all tuned up and ready to go, sharing space with jumper cables and other junk. The one thing I missed during this long period off the bike, is I didn’t get...
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It’s Like Riding a Bike
6 Miles. 6 slow, awkward, steady, incredibly blissful miles. I got home from work thinking that I would spend the evening tracking down my bike stuff and ride tomorrow. After all, aside from the...
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Combating “Bike Lash”
A couple of years ago, my wife and I were casually walking along the downtown streets of Charleston. We stopped at a red light, waiting for it to turn before we crossed, when all of a sudden a cyclist...
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Walking Before Riding
Yesterday I had been planning on my grand return. I was going to ride in The Good Ride in Charlotte. The plan was that I would travel up with my wife, and even if I couldn’t ride, we would make a...
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Week 15.5 Report: A Little Hiccup
First off, congrats to all of my friends who completed the Assault on Mount Mitchell this year. After having done it the last three years, it was bittersweet watching them from a distance, but I’m...
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Silence is Golden
The Ride of Silence was one that I didn’t want to miss. I’ve made it the last several years and feel it’s among the most important events in our local community, and many other communities across the...
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Recovery: Smooth as Sandpaper
When I was at the Ride of Silence the other day, a friend joked that watching my recovery from afar was like watching a roller coaster from the ground. At one moment I’m up, and the next moment I’m...
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Mitchell 2014: Determination and Camaraderie
My personal streak is over. I had successfully assaulted Mitchell three years in a row. It was bittersweet for me to miss this ride. On one hand, it felt like I was missing out. On the other hand, I...
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Switching Gears For Awhile
This blog is technically about cycling, but I tend to talk about what’s most interesting at any given moment. I don’t blog about every 20-mile ride around the neighborhood unless there’s something...
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Personal History: The Dot-Com Kid
Andrea and I flew out a couple days early to Los Angeles for some downtime before her Jeopardy experience. We would need to recover from the stress (for Andrea) and pain (for me) of traveling, plus get...
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Personal History: North Hollywood Days
In June of 2000, I traveled cross-country by car, with a cat and all the belongings I could bring, to arrive at my new life in North Hollywood. Just before my wife’s Jeopardy appearance, we arrived...
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My Jeopardy Experience
Now I can finally tell the story (or stories) that I’ve been waiting to tell for months. We got the call for Andrea’s Jeopardy appearance about two weeks before my surgery date. We would have to leave...
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We’re on Deck
When I was sitting in the Jeopardy audience and first saw Andrea standing up there, my thoughts turned to number crunching. Probability and statistics is part of what I do for a living. I did some math...
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VICTORY!!!
I detest secrets. Loathe them. I probably have the worst poker face on the planet, but this was a secret I had to keep. Revealing this secret could jeopardized (ha!) my wife’s winnings. Yes, winnings...
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