WAY TO GO with your cross training Bob!! Just imagine how much stronger you'll be once you get back to running! Hope the test for you foot goes well!! I have a feeling you'll be back sooner than you think!

Hey Bob, how did the bike ride go this weekend? Or did you try it? Hope things are progressing positively for your foot.

Not so good, Mike. Thanks for asking. I am really missing my running...

Not so good, Mike. Thanks for asking. I am really missing my running...

Yeah. I'm very sorry to hear it as well Bob. Like Pam, I was expecting/hoping to hear the opposite too. Well - hopefully, since the swimming is going okay for you - it will remain something good for you to keep in shape with - assuming you have an indoor place to move it to when winter comes. Doesn't sound like that wetsuit will be good enough for a NY winter.

Hi Katie! Thanks for dropping in and for the nice comments, especially about them not putting me out to pasture! BTW, what the heck are you doing in your avatar? No changes with the injury. I must admit, I'm getting a little worried. Still keeping up with the PT stuff. Next week I have a followup with my orthopedist. I swam with a group of triathletes on Tuesday after work. Dummy me, I went to the gym at lunchtime that day and did upper body stuff, so needless to say, I got my butt kicked in the water. We made plans to swim again on Thursday evening. The weather was kinda icky, but I went anyway, and nobody else showed up. I thought these guys were supposed to be hardcore! They've been razzing me about coming out of retirement to do another triathlon. I told them I didn't want an old man to show them all up, so they really started talking trash then. Most of these kids are in their 20's and early 30's. So today, I signed up for the Timberman Half Ironman in New Hampshire in August. Most of them are doing it as well. They are all toast, that's all I can say! hehehe It'll be fun whipping the pants off of people half my age!

Had my ortho appointment today. Not much to report. Just keep doing what I'm doing... wear the boot as much as possible, keep up with the PT, ice ice ice. I've been taking Aleve for 6 weeks now, I was told to stop that due to ulcer potential. On the days that I don't have a PT appointment, I do the same routine on myself at home. The worst is the deep tissue massage, that really kills the tendon. You can feel the roughness in there. While my PT Vinny was digging into it yesterday, he remarked "Man you have a lot of garbage still in there to be worked out." Nice. While I was massaging it myself on Monday, I started to cry, partly due to how much it hurt, and partly just out of frustration. Today my ortho guy John said, "You really f**ing pissed off that tendon in there!" Nice again. I'm going for an MRI just to see if anything out of the ordinary shows up, like a tear. Not that the treatment will change any, but it'll be nice to know exactly what is in there. It's really just being patient and behaving at this point. In the meantime, I'm still able to swim in the lakes. It's chilly, but still doable thanks to the unusually warm weather we've been having.

Geez Pam, that was very nice of you to say that stuff! Thank you! You need the cooler weather more than I do though, you've worked too hard for this race to have warm weather put a damper on things. You will rock Steamtown regardless! I swam early this AM with a couple of heavy duty triathlon guys. One of them won his age group out in Hawaii a few years back. It was a very humbling experience... talk about getting your doors blown off! It's good to get your butt kicked like that once in a while, it keep you focused and determined to get better.

Geez Pam, that was very nice of you to say that stuff! Thank you! You need the cooler weather more than I do though, you've worked too hard for this race to have warm weather put a damper on things. You will rock Steamtown regardless! I swam early this AM with a couple of heavy duty triathlon guys. One of them won his age group out in Hawaii a few years back. It was a very humbling experience... talk about getting your doors blown off! It's good to get your butt kicked like that once in a while, it keep you focused and determined to get better.

Didn't say anything that wasn't true! Your right, I've worked way too hard to let ANYTHING even this crick in my neck I got during the night put a damper on Steamtown! So I will just HTFU and ROCK THAT RACE!! VERY COOL that you get to that cross train with the kind of athlete's that you do! Nothing to help your focus and determination than getting your butt kicked once in awhile! Only butt I've been kicking is my own lol.