The ultrashea

CCR on the turntable? Check. Charcoal ready to grill the best burgers ever? Check. Fantastic + impossible to get btl of wine decanting? Yup

RT @wilw: If I had a million GP we’d travel by Gryphon ‘cause it costs more. If I had a million GP, wouldn’t have to eat iron rations…

RT @wilw: If I had a million GP, I’d buy you a Vorpal sword (but not a cursed Vorpal sword, ‘cause that’s cruel.)

Watching UFC, planning next race season. Can I get a hell yeah for ambitious plans?

Off-season rehab/recovery run. 12 mins 6 secs for Road Runs http://btwb.us/djrh

Another day, another race cancelled.  I will not be running the Tupelo Marathon over Labor Day weekend as I’d planned.  The rib/chest wall injury from the crash is better, although not completely.  Whiplash is more under control, but still hurting.  However, what I’d feared after the crash has turned out to be true - the shoulder injury that I suffered in the cycling crash in April was aggravated/reactivated by the crash.  At this point, I’m in just about as much pain with my shoulder as I was in early May after the cycling crash in mid-April. Tupelo is in less than two weeks, and there’s no way I’m going to be able to run a marathon that soon.  The plan following that was to do the Lakefront 50/50 in late October (running the 50 mile race), and then train over the winter to run the Mad City 100k in early April.  I’m cautiously hopeful that I’ll be able to do those, but I’m going to have to wait and see.  My plan currently is to take the next two weeks (when I’d planned on prepping for Tupelo) as a bit of an off-season, and work on rehabbing my shoulder.  Looking at my shoulder, I’m fairly certain that contrary to what doctors told me, I did in fact separate it in the cycling crash - the top/back of my clavicle has stuck up noticeably since the crash (enough so that other people have commented on it when I’m wearing a cycling jersey), and I can clearly feel much more of the end of my left clavicle than my right.  

So, for the next couple weeks, no high intensity/heavy weight training, and I’m going to have to try to keep from going stir-crazy.  After that, I’m going to have to play it by ear, but I’m having to look at the very real possibility that I may not be able to run Lakefront.

So, to review, this season has gone as follows:

• April 6th: Had to have our dog put to sleep
• April 10th: Flipped my bike at 35MPH in the first race of the season, landed on my shoulder.  Got a ride back to the paramedics in the broom wagon.  Ended up in the ER with a cervical collar on
• May 6th: Got a lung infection
• May 27th: Watched several of my teammates get deliberately hit by a motorist while we were on a training ride
• July 17th: Dropped 50 miles into a 12 hour race due to dehydration
• July 28th: Hit in our car multiple times by a drunk driver.  Ended up in the ER with a cervical collar on.  Still periodically finding slivers of glass to pull from my body (as of August 21st).  Am still white-knuckled driving or riding after dark, or pretty much any time most cars have their headlights on.  Am still very jumpy with any sudden noises when I’m in the car or on my bike.  Am now finally slightly less freaked out any time I hear sirens.  Looking like I’ll have at least two scars on my arm from the crash to add to my scar collection.  Have yet to have a day pain free since the crash.

In and around there, I’ve started 10 cycling races (9 USAC sanctioned), had to withdraw from 4 races and counting due to injuries (1 due to recovering from injuries due to the cycling crash, 3 due to recovering from injuries caused by the drunk driver).  I tried declaring a mulligan on this season, but that unfortunately didn’t work, so instead, I’m trying to take the following to heart:
“A true cyclist sometimes has to bite the dust before he can reach the stars. Win. Survive. Hang in there. It’s a race against oblivion, a race against time, a race against yourself…”
-Laurent Fignon

Along with pulling the plug on the bike race season, need to cancel at least one race from run season. Details on blog tomorrow. Grmph.

Yes, I am going to spend the rest of the day cooking and listening to Fugazi at high volume. Why do you ask?

“Clearly, we’re dealing with a menace that no one has ever imagined, much less counted on.” “Like Hurricane Katrina?” Lose 1d6 INT&1d10 SAN

“Alright, listen you two. Sharkzilla’s going to be in your lap in about five minutes.” Lose 3d8 HP.

“Those guys have been frozen in ice for millions of years. Wouldn’t you be a little horny?” Lose 2d10 SAN

“Are you trying to tell me that a prehistoric giant shark ate my whale!?”
Lose 1d4 INT