Ok. So here is the update on the knee. I saw the doctor yesterday, and we reviewed the results of my MRI. There basically is no ACL left. The PCL is intact, but the ACL does not show up on the MRI. It must have torn all the way through in the crash, and has [...]
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Ok. The nurse called today from the Orthopedic Surgeon’s office. They have seen the results from my MRI. She called to move my follow up appointment sooner. She was also calling me to tell me to schedule a pre-op physical with my regular doctor. So, Tuesday I go to see the Surgeon and hear what [...]
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Somewhere during my career as a licensed car driver I changed from needing a sporty car to a utility car. I remember thinking while I was a sporty car driver that I would never own an SUV, minivan or any other family-like car. Then motorcycles happened and I learned that the best way I can [...]
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It was kind of fun, actually. I mean, I got to listen to some great 80′s hair band music and lay in a tube that was making a ton of noise. Occasionally, the nurse would chip in with a comment somehting like “just 6 minutes more!” I almost fell asleep. Seriously. I don’t really wish [...]
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Success! The doctor told me yesterday to get off the crutches, to get on my bike and to start working out again. I took his advice. I did a super easy workout – 30 minutes spinning on the trainer in the gym at a cadence of 75 and less than 100watts. It felt tight and [...]
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Things went really well at the doctor. I have been hobbling around for a week now. Slowly my knee has improved. The knee is still really swollen, and I am struggling to put full weight on it, but it is getting better. The doctor did Xrays (of course they showed nothing and were inconclusive). And, [...]
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This past week, I was up at Marquette Mountain in the UP of Michigan. I was doing some freeride mountain biking on the mountain there. On 9/11 (I know a fateful day), it was kind of rainy and cold. But, the dirt was perfect. There is a bunch of really good flowy DH type terrain, [...]
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I did not get to share my notes after the Kewaunee race. As Scott noted, we normally drive to the races together, but our work schedules forced us to drive separately. Normally we would get a couple of hours of sharing race notes after a race. Here is the note I sent to Scott after [...]
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This past weekend was round 8 of the District 16 Hare Scramble series. We have raced at Valders for years which can be good and bad, depending on where my head is. Good because I know what to expect and bad because the course is getting beat up. The Viking gun club owns the place [...]
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Below might not make any sense to you but I’ll post it anyhow. Normally Joe and I drive to races togehter but this time around our work schedules differed too much. Here is a note I dropped to Joe the day after the race: Didn’t get the chance to share race notes on the drive home after [...]
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I’m currently leading the AA points chase in D16 and I really want to go into 2008 as a series overall champion. We have just come off our summer break so I’m a bit concerned about my in-race intensity and hope to get going again when the season resumes on September 9th. I can normally [...]
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