Like an idiot, I went snowboarding yesterday. Not only on a damaged knee, but also having lost some training time. I sure hope I can get back into it.
Oh, but I learned how to snowboard...badly. I believe I can get better though. The revelation is that if you know how to rock back and forth on your feet, you can snowboard.
The major obstacles are mental. I had the damnedest time getting the board to go where I wanted it to go because I was focused on the things I was going to run into. If the fat lady was on the hill below, naturally, the board seemed to want to send me into the fat lady. At the last second, I would have to save the fat ladies life by falling into the snow.
I feel dozens of times. Most of the time, it hurt really bad. Really killed my wrists. Today my neck, back, knee, and ankles ache. There may be a bit of damage on my right pec and the upper parts of my arms. I'm going to try to go ahead with my marathon training. I think I'll just be missing 20 miles out of my training schedule.
Posted by joel at February 20, 2005 10:29 PM