the knee

i have a knee injury. i am stupid. these things are working against me right now. yesterday i was helping my buddy cory more into his new house in issaquah. he is a mile from the paraglider landing point from the top of tiger mtn. at first i thought, "i'll just hike up and see how that feels". after putting on an old pair of montrail highlanders that i hadn't ever run in i somehow forgot the plan and starting thinking, "wow these are nice and light. they feel like trail flats! i might have a new race shoe". ran the 2 mile 2,000 foot uphill, felt great and was surprisingly fast. but the outside of my right knee, where i landed in the high speed bike crash on feb 17th started to hurt and got wose with every step. flats and downhills just killed. it hurt to walk stairs after that and hurt all night last night. had a 100 mile bike ride planned for today that i had to bail on (sorry justin).

i have a doctors appt tomorrow. this sux... thanks roger for pointing out the obvious - that i wasn't really resting it, and that i need to see the dr. did i mention this sux?

and so it begins

today i rode 75 miles in the rain on my road bike. today officially starts my real training for the season. meaning a lot of things.. i'm going to focus and stop messing around. diet and dedication change as of today. i've got an ankle (from c4p) and knee injury (from a high speed bike crash) that are really bothering and scaring me right now. i basically can't run. so i'm going to train on the bike like i've got a full season of 24hr solo mtn bike races... and if the knee never comes around then maybe i will.

baja travesia expedition adventure race: the last baja travesia cyril, seegs and i won in 69 hrs on about 10 minutes of sleep (see my old race report). i was supposed to race it this year with rick baraff (salomon silly rabbits) on march 23rd. rick's been very famous lately: hammer nutrition catalog, oakland magazine and this january max muscle issue (?!). i had to bail on him because of my injuries... it's really bothering me. sorry rick. we'll get out there and race together at some point.