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She's really having a run of bad physical luck.
She'd been having a lot of pain in her foot for a while, and the Thursday that everyone arrived for Pragestock, that morning she finally went to the foot doctor. Turns out she has a heel spur and a couple of pulled or partially torn ligaments. The doctor gave her some orthotic arch supports and told her to think of them as a cast, so she has to wear them all the time. She also has a boot that she has to wear at night.
Needless to say, running or even walking has proved to be pretty painful for her.
So, we've been doing more biking.
We've always just had regular pedals on our bikes, but everyone has always told us that if we ever tried SPDs, we'd never want to ride with pedals again.
So, over the weekend we had some cash burning a hole in our pockets and bought each of us a set of SPDs and some biking shoes. We knew there would be some adjustment, so we've mainly kept it to riding around the yard, though we did go up to Cedar Lakes on Sunday morning.
Anyway, yesterday evening we were riding around in the yard and Mrs. P wiped out on the gravel driveway. Couldn't get unclipped fast enough to catch herself. She took the impact with her left wrist. She got a few nice scrapes and bruises from the gravel too.
It was hurting so bad she went to the ER this morning. It's not broken, but it's a pretty severe sprain.
So now she's got a bad foot and a bad wrist. We can't really go to the pool because of the damned orthotics and now the splint on her wrist. We can't run, and now we can't bike.
I imagine I'm going to need more mojo than she is because she's going to drive me nuts if she can't get out and exercise.
She'd been having a lot of pain in her foot for a while, and the Thursday that everyone arrived for Pragestock, that morning she finally went to the foot doctor. Turns out she has a heel spur and a couple of pulled or partially torn ligaments. The doctor gave her some orthotic arch supports and told her to think of them as a cast, so she has to wear them all the time. She also has a boot that she has to wear at night.
Needless to say, running or even walking has proved to be pretty painful for her.
So, we've been doing more biking.
We've always just had regular pedals on our bikes, but everyone has always told us that if we ever tried SPDs, we'd never want to ride with pedals again.
So, over the weekend we had some cash burning a hole in our pockets and bought each of us a set of SPDs and some biking shoes. We knew there would be some adjustment, so we've mainly kept it to riding around the yard, though we did go up to Cedar Lakes on Sunday morning.
Anyway, yesterday evening we were riding around in the yard and Mrs. P wiped out on the gravel driveway. Couldn't get unclipped fast enough to catch herself. She took the impact with her left wrist. She got a few nice scrapes and bruises from the gravel too.
It was hurting so bad she went to the ER this morning. It's not broken, but it's a pretty severe sprain.
So now she's got a bad foot and a bad wrist. We can't really go to the pool because of the damned orthotics and now the splint on her wrist. We can't run, and now we can't bike.
I imagine I'm going to need more mojo than she is because she's going to drive me nuts if she can't get out and exercise.
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