Category Archives: Injuries and Recovery

It’s Just Like Swimming a Lap

Posted on November 3, 2023 by Al

Thirteen years ago today, I swam for the first time after my near fatal bike accident on Sept 18, 2010. All my life, I’ve been swimming. I don’t remember learning how, nor do I have any memories of water fear. In elementary school, my sister and I always spent the first day of summer … Continue reading →

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Acupuncture…Hype or Hope

Posted on July 24, 2023 by Al

In today’s Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/07/24/does-acupuncture-work-chronic-pain/ My comment… The brain, with it’s 600,000,000,000,000 (six hundred trillion) synapses and mysterious spinal cord, is much more capable and complex than what our minds, which only use *some* of those synapses, can comprehend. I’m … Continue reading →

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On The Road Again

Posted on July 11, 2023 by Al

Reporting in on my experience returning to cycling after a radical robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP). Prior to surgery 14 weeks ago, cycling was one of my passions as a 74 y/o. I’d done it all – mountain biking, multi-day trips, … Continue reading →

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Advice On Injury Coverage

Posted on August 21, 2022 by Al

Yesterday, an EN athlete who is qualified for Kona this October fell while cycling, breaking his pelvis. He asked for advice from the team. My response: Rule #1: The Outcome is not pre-ordained, but it IS within your control. (If … Continue reading →

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My Knee is Healed?

Posted on May 14, 2021 by Al

I started running @ age 50. I’m lean – 5’8.5″ (used to be 2″ taller)/146#, so excess weight is not an issue. But decades of weight lifting (heavy squats, leg extensions), hard-core skiing (bumps/moguls) and breaststroke swimming (whip kick) took … Continue reading →

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Fire Up Those Glutes!

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Al

An EN asked for help getting her glutes to fire when running. I took the opportunity to reflect back on how I have been attempting to resurrect my running while challenged by various lower limb difficulties… Over the past four … Continue reading →

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Moving On

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Al

Moving on. I have been trying to rehabilitate one part of my lower limbs after another since 2015.  It’s been an almost constant uphill battle with high hamstring tendonitis, piriformis sciatica, and other assorted ills on one leg or another. … Continue reading →

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Reaching Out

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Al

In my current quest to regenerate my knee, I first reached out to a long-time friend, who went through arthroscopic surgery last year for similar issues. Here’s what I said: Since the first of the year, my R knee has … Continue reading →

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Rotten To The Core

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Al

“When did that tree fall over?” Cody asked. He had driven down from Seattle for one of his periodic visits with Cheryl’s perpetually overloaded computer. She takes literally 1,000s of pictures at a time, and has a tenuous hold on … Continue reading →

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Piriformis Sciatica

Posted on November 24, 2017 by Al

I’ve been going through piriformis/sciatica issues for the past year. It was a one time event in mid-Dec ’16, when I tried to do some fast intervals and immediately felt it in my butt. It took about 2 months before … Continue reading →

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