This Week

What a week this has been. I feel as though I am making NO progress physically. (Yet I know I must be…)
Extra special thanks to my friend and sports chiropractor extraordinare, Josh Glass, for his extra attention this week. As it turns out, I don’t know what I would have done without him.

Aside from lots of glute strength work, I’d been doing very little, just the usual routine. 30:00-40:00 runs, 30:00 swims, 1 hour+ bikes, etc. Each activity has caused the same “hunched over”, painful reaction. Wednesday, in particular, I rode for 90min with my friend Tony Myers and when I dismounted the indoor trainer, I couldn’t stand straight. Same thing for the swimming (I think this is either pushing off the wall or the twisting which results from flip turns?). The running simply aches.

I am beyond frustrated.

I’d been helping Josh at his office this week and it was a good thing! He worked...

The view from behind

This weekend showed glorious weather to Atlanta. We had sub-70 degree days here – amazing. 40 degrees one day, 70 the next. Crazy.

This month of December is “strengthen and rebuild” focus only. Any work I do to try to rebuild fitness will only backfire if my muscles are not strong enough to absorb the work. The crash aside, the problems I was facing this season with my back (that came to a head while I was training in Boulder in September) are still there. I haven’t escaped the need to address them. JZ has been such an awesome support system for me with this… after the Olympics she went through near career-ending issues with her back. Watching me all hunched over after dismounting the bike each day was eerily familiar to her; the advice she has been giving me has been its usual bulls-eye accuracy. She’s advising me the same protocol she herself went through post-Sydney when she came back to race stronger...

Some 'REAL' updates…

December Greetings!

I do have some things to share for this update. I didn’t want to say anything before I knew what was up, and confided in a handful of my close, inner-circle friends as to what was going on in case their help was needed urgently. I love and thank those of you dear friends told as I obviously chose the right people in whom to confide – not a word of this got out, for which I am grateful. I know the people in my world I can trust and I will remember this always.

One of the things that came about as a result of the accident in Hawaii was some attention to my kidney. A cat-scan had shown something that initially I was told was a bruise. Amid all the other broken this’s and cracked that’s, a bruised kidney was just added to the list.

Once I got back to Atlanta I was fortunate to get my broken wrists looked after by Sports Ortho Dr Michael Behr, my friend from masters swimming. He was awesome!...