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Trying for the 1 in 400 Trillion
Trying for the 1 in 400 Trillion
I hesitated writing this blog until my wife told me that I should go ahead and do it now while I am going through the emotions of this all. With the first sentence completed, I am sitting here already tearing up before I can even get into the story.
I am a husband to a wife who has gone through the pains of infertility for the past 5 years. I have watched my seeming always joyful beautiful bride…
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Day 57 of 152 Patience for the Patient
Day 57 of 152 Patience for the Patient
Be patient they say. Sit and do nothing but rest is the best. Just give it time and it will heal. Its okay to be lazy for a few weeks.
I get it but I wont.
Last week was my week to shrug off all that bshit and get back down to work. My philosophy in life has always been work hard, nose down and success follows.
So at my doctor’s visit when I still couldnt move my leg and it wouldnt lay straight…
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Day 29 of 192 The Fog is Lifted
Day 29 of 192 The Fog is Lifted
The last 9 days have been a whirlwind to say the least.
My hopes and visions of working out 3 days post op and getting back to moving were immediately halted when I felt the post hospital leave pain saturday morning. I dont mind pain, discomfort and/or the pursuit of it but this my friends was different.
The days of Sunday-Wednesday of this past week were not my finest days as a human at all. I…
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Day 18 "Change is gonna come"
When this is published I will be somewhere in space per say. This post is scheduled to post at exactly 9:45am CST. By all account that I am given I will be asleep and in some way in the process of having surgeons cut my femur in half. They tell me that by cutting my IT band and femur that they can pin it, straighten it and put a rod down my leg to fix my “hobble” and ultimately help my knee…
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Day 12 of 152 "The Complete Diary"
Day 12 of 152 “The Complete Diary”
After working all weekend at Possums Revenge I got home late Sunday and as always proceeded to crash. It was the combination of both exhaustion from a week’s work, lack of sleep but also the mental dump I get from race directing.
It does usually take me 2-3 days to process the emotions of our races, to rationalize things that happened and for me to put down notes for the following year. In this…
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I am willing and I am ready.
I am willing and I am ready.
Day 1/152
This week was my week to own the future in my own eyes. Its been a week of feeling inspired, thinking of what is next and getting the future presented in full force.
We spent the better half of the day 6 hours in the hospital doing all the work necessary for my surgery. We met with my surgeon, we got the date of 5/31 and we talked about what could be the outcome of all of this. The…
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Opposites Attract.
I am 1 day away from a pre op appointment from my surgeon.
I am exactly 21 days away from having someone saw my femur in half, through my IT band and put it all back together with a steel plate.
I am 22 days away from starting recovery.
I am around 4 months and 22 days away from touching my foot back on the ground for the first time.
I am 7 months and 21 days away from Snowdrop. It seems so close…
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Houston, we have a problem.. Shit show on Rower #3
Houston, we have a problem.. Shit show on Rower #3
Well all good things must come to an end they say. Sometimes they say that about life, love or in this case my rowing adventures for the time being.
Some might want some drawn-out replay of how the day went, what I thought went wrong or a very analysis type report. So I shall indulge in those parts.
-At 15 minutes in my left leg starting going numb. I was at a steady 2:26 avg pace.
-At 45 minutes…
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Week 10... Anxious but Ready.
Week 10… Anxious but Ready.
Each day leading up to Saturday is more of the same.
Im anxious, im scared but I am 100% ready. I am driven by so many things these days that I have no choice but to put my absolute soul into every pull of this rower for whatever it takes to get to that magical 160,935 countdown.
This picture makes me smile more than it does sad. The first part for me is to realize from looking at photos on the…
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Week 9.. One and Done.
Week 9.. One and Done.
The first week in my taper and my decision on going after 1 goal for now.
While at the Drs office before the news of the impending surgery I was looking up the Guinness book of world records for 24-hour deadlift weight. I did the math, did the calculations and determined that is a record I want to set. I was literally telling Rachel the calculations to break this record as this guy was telling me…
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Broken Hearted.. Week 8
Broken Hearted.. Week 8
Broken Hearted.
As we sit silently in the doctors office they tell me that something isnt adding up. The surgeries, the x rays and all the mri results. They explain to me that a knee replacement isnt going to happen, that they think there is a problem with my femur and that we need more x-rays. he asks me how long have i been knock knee>? Im like what the fuck are you talking about? he says did…
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Dont pray for me.. Week 7
Dont pray for me.. Week 7
For those who start reading this blog with guns ready and comments half typed be patient.
I have the better part of a few months been speaking this blog out loud. For me time alone training, driving or listening to nothing gives me time to digest how I feel as a person in my life. I have had a lot of time recently while i have been driving across Texas, sitting on a rower or dealing with an MRI…
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Weeks 5 and 6 of the Row Show.. Strip, Rebuild and Relive
Weeks 5 and 6 of the Row Show.. Strip, Rebuild and Relive
Well the last 2 weeks have been tough but we have made some huge improvements on the fitness and the rower.
Week 5
Jackalope Jam ended that weekend so my goals were simple for the week. I was going to try and get my legs moving early and often in the week.
As you can see my week started with lifting early in the week and combining that with getting in meters as well mon-wed. My internal plan was…
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Week 4 and Week 5 of Life on the Row Show
Week 4 and Week 5 of Life on the Row Show
Well folks as always in life there is hickups to the show but it must go on. After I headed home from the El paso trip I was battered, tired and ended up with a zero for the week. I was okay with this as I battled the passing of getting food poisioning was moving on and I was confident that I could row the week of Jackalope Jam.
So the 2/19-2/25 was my best week in a long time in regards to…
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Week 3 of the Traveling Row Show
Week 3 of the Traveling Row Show
Well week 3 of the traveling road show had me in lovely El Paso Texas where I directed the Lone Star 100. As noted in my previous week 2 blog my goals this week were to try and get in some 5k rows since I knew I would be hiking a bunch in the mountains. As fate would have it my other partner to help me course mark got injured in our first day of marking on Sunday.
So that means that I would be…
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Lactate tests, hard Rowing and the traveling row show.
Well week 2 kicked off with getting my lactate tested via Memorial hermann over at Shepard Square in Houston. I love getting my LT done before a big training block for me almost 4 months to really pinpoint zones, gains and overall I love the data. So here is the watts v heartrate half of the lactate test that I did recently. The written numbers on the bottom are from last year around I think…
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Week 1 is always fun.
So with wanting to go for some big goals its honestly important for me to have perspective on what I can and cant do at times. With myself Race Directing full time there are days when i spend 4 hours loading trucks and days like the weekend where i work 24 hours straight. Both of those will leave some rowing gaps but also build on other values.
My goals for the first week is just be consistent…
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