Training

Short post.  A week after Thanksgiving (2018) and it is time to set goals for rational weight loss.  Thirty pounds by June 2019.  No goal ...

My consciousness remains intact and is sharper and wiser than when I was much younger.  My `mind'  is another way of referring to my con...

2.5 months out from right knee replacement.  Training has been consistent and outcome has been better than expected.  I've been `itchin...

I'm typing this from a motel in Borrego Springs, CA, an hour and some change from the start of the  24 Hour World Time Trials . I arrive...

In November of 2017 I participated in the 24 Hour World Time Trial Championship in Borrego Springs, California.  Though I managed to put 25...

Perhaps the most consequential experience in my entire life was when I flunked my freshman year at St. Joseph's Academy for Boys in West...

Monday, September 10, was the four week milestone regarding the knee replacement surgery.  Good, but arduous and painful progress.  I was ve...

I made a personal commitment not to write much about the past year's struggle with the bum right knee until I concluded that the struggl...

We live in remarkable times.  Two weeks ago tomorrow a surgeon sawed out Mrs. Fallon's kid's right knee and replaced it with a fak...

I hold two World Ultra Cycling Association Cross-State records.  2009.  Illinois and Indiana.  Male recumbent 60-69.   If the upcoming k...

Knee surgery scheduled for Monday, August 13th.  Though I have reluctantly accepted the fact that I will be spending several weeks, and perh...

Upfront: 55/42 double with 175mm cranks. In back:  11/36 ten speed cassette Steering: Long tiller with Nitto mini bullhorn bars fu...

I'm scheduled for right knee surgery on August 13th.  I'm lucky with that.  Because it was originally scheduled for the first week o...

Further adventures of staying modestly sane while on the stationary trainer. Three and four hours a day on the trainer. Both of these vi...

Something to make the time pass without my remaining brain turning to cheese:  

Waiting to be scheduled for right knee replacement surgery.   A `firm' date almost four months away.  I've requested `dibs' ...

Pulled the trigger today.  I'll be undergoing a total right knee replacement (arthroplasty) in a few weeks.   After eight months of r...

As of this week I hold the North American 24 Hour Champion / Recumbent / 70 + record.   Last weekend I traveled to Amarillo, Texas, to par...

Baker's cyst.  Popliteal bursa.  THAT is what caused me so much pain, disappointment and grief since October 2017. After four days, ...

Several months ago I began experiencing a growing ache in my right leg.  At first I just racked it up to the usual temporary discomfort of s...

Despite several disappointing outcomes to my 2017 cycling year there were a few silver linings.   The World Ultra Cycling Association (for...

Several months ago I began experiencing a growing ache in my right leg.  At first I just racked it up to the usual temporary discomfort of s...