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One week ago today, I was playing handball as usual, planted my foot hard as usual, heard a sound exactly like a kid popping his bubble gum, felt a searing pain in my left knee, and immediately lost all strength there. Looked down, the tendon that attaches to the top of my kneecap was curled up in a hard knot at the top of the kneecap. What an adventure trying to get the motorcycle home. Jesus.
RICE and NSAIDs ensued.
Rented a car for our annual trip to Tidioute for the PBR, cause I knew I could never keep the bike upright that long with Bearswatter on pillion.
But now here we are a week later, and even though I can bend the thing, loads of progress, and the hard knot has 2/3s subsided, there's still no strength to speak of. I am thoroughly hobbled. So today I have to bite the bullet and call off my annual camping ride down the Blue Ridge Parkway. This bites. I love that place. Adore it. Johnny Sotweedseed has to sit this one out.
You know what doesn't work out? What doesn't work out worth a hill of beans is when you have the insane competitive attitude that makes you play at 110%, but you have zero athletic ability to make you succeed if you do play 110%. Cause then you get these same sports injuries as an athlete, but you are never any darn good at it anyway.
I hate being laid up. Sweat is the salt of life.
RICE and NSAIDs ensued.
Rented a car for our annual trip to Tidioute for the PBR, cause I knew I could never keep the bike upright that long with Bearswatter on pillion.
But now here we are a week later, and even though I can bend the thing, loads of progress, and the hard knot has 2/3s subsided, there's still no strength to speak of. I am thoroughly hobbled. So today I have to bite the bullet and call off my annual camping ride down the Blue Ridge Parkway. This bites. I love that place. Adore it. Johnny Sotweedseed has to sit this one out.
You know what doesn't work out? What doesn't work out worth a hill of beans is when you have the insane competitive attitude that makes you play at 110%, but you have zero athletic ability to make you succeed if you do play 110%. Cause then you get these same sports injuries as an athlete, but you are never any darn good at it anyway.
I hate being laid up. Sweat is the salt of life.
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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Your story makes me miss home though. I need to get back to the Blue Ridge soon.