heyhey!
HELLO!
Long time no see/post/etc.
It’s been an interesting couple of years. Back around this time in 2009 when I was competing in the CF Games I was also busy dealing with the first signs of my disintegrating post-tib tendon. Tried to heal it, got the boot, yadda yadda, wonky gait sped up lumbar herniations…healed that business (quite well, I must say) and now it’s 2011.
I’m dancing, I’m training with my theater cohorts, I’m back on my bike daily, I’m practicing yoga. And I’m just now starting to train in CF again.
After a nasty bike crash that left me with a very deep puncture wound over my post-tib tendon just north of the navicular and an unrelated bone contusion on my left foot I had another MRI in June. My left ankle is chronically swollen in various places, there’s still marrow swelling at the 2nd metatarsal, and there’s increased damage to the post-tib tendon… in other words: all sorts of minor but persistent pathologies and very regular pain in my left foot/ankle (hi Daniel Day Lewis). So I’m going to the orthopedist on Monday and hoping to come up with a strategy for managing this drama.
In the meantime, this week I’ve done:
1) 45 minute sprint/hill workout on the bike (Tuesday)
2) 3 home practices and 1 yoga class (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday)
3) CF workout - warmup 3 rounds of 10 x pullups, pushups, situps, back extensions, OHS w/pvc pipe
20 X DL 135#
Row 500
20 X power clean 65#
Row 500
20 pullups (skinny band)
Row 500
13:23
(Thursday)
I’m certainly not at my fittest/leanest/strongest/most flexible, but I am confident that I’ll come back healthier and stronger and happier about how I feel and look than I was before. Depending on the outcome of this doctor visit and the prognosis for my ankle, I may be doing a lot of ballet in the coming year - an exciting prospect.
I live on 125 and Broadway (with Isaac Bauer! yay!) now so I’m heading to CF Hell’s Kitchen when I hit the CF gym.
That’s the most perfunctory of updates.
Looking forward to a new and improved relationship to my physical training and fitness goals.
happily,
D
