Mountain mayhem March 13, 2007
Posted by aikenthum in Bicycling.trackback
Kelvin’s comment about cycling reminded me of the old cycling blog that my wife and I kept while we were training for around the bay in a day, that bike ride where you punish your body over a distance of 220ish kms for dubious benefit. Well, it was in my case anyway… I suffered! Badly! Nevertheless, an adventure it was, and being the reckless type I think I’ll give it another go this year.
Since then, the cycling has continued, although my wife has kinda crept ahead in the fitness stakes. I turned into a bit of a lame duck after the bay ride, copping a nasty right knee injury, which seems to be an exacerbation of a previous posterior cruciate ligament injury I sustained in a motorbike accident. In any case, I took a couple of months off to let my knee settle down, while my wife trained like a madwoman and subsequently conquered Mount Buller, one of our local ski fields. It’s quite a climb!! Anyway, she made it to the top, ’smoked’ a bunch of people on the way up and I have to say I’m pretty proud of her!
Yeah, Amy is a star isn’t she? It’s a real bugger that your knee still plays up. Perhaps you could still be in the cycling game by getting yourself a recumbent. Although that could cement your geek/nerd status, especially after that computer storage posting of yours!
But seriously I hope you get your fitness back so that you’re not blown away too much when riding with Amy.
Bah – recumbent reshmumbent! There’s nothing like the feeling of being crouched over the handlebars when you’re up and cranking the, er, cranks giving it all you can!
I’ll keep working on the knee. I saw my physio again today and she said if my knee is clunking while I ride (which it is) then I’ll likely need about 12 weeks of rehab. Oh well! Bring it on! Gotta be fit for next year’s Mt Buller ride