My daily ‘range’, the area in which I can move freely, is a bit restricted at the moment. The maximum travel distance is say 60-70 feet. I feel a bit like an animal in a cage at the zoo; no matter how nice the surroundings the limitations on movement start to grate on you. Much of my day is spent either at my desk in the office or on the couch. Pretty boring.
At least I timed things so the ‘Tour’ is going on during the time of forced confinement. And it has been interesting so far. I watch the Versus live feed as soon as I get up until the stage ends for the day. We did not watch that much of it last year, but in 2006 we watched a whole lot, much of it while in Portland. The place we stayed in Portland did not get OLN so we had to find an alternative spot for watching. Chris King sponsored viewings of the recaps/rebroadcasts at a local watering hole but then we found St. Honoré Boulangerie, a local bakery that showed the OLN coverage live each morning. The bakery was about a mile from where we were staying so the ritual was to get up, get on the bikes, roll to the bakery for the opening, then jostle with the locals for a seat with a good view of the large flat-panel TV. Once settled, part of the ritual was to watch for favorites breads and pastries coming out of the oven so we could get them while they were hot and tasty. Sure would be nice to have a warm chocolate croissant with my coffee in the morning. Might make the confinement seem less ornerous.
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I can try to make you a hot chocolate croissant. Results may be disappointing!
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For me it’s not quite the same, but somewhat familiar. With the newborn yesterday I woke up at 4:30am to change a diaper and help with the feeding. I decided to go downstairs and watch the live TdF feed. Somewhere about an hour later I fell asleep on the couch and work up to Valverde halfway through the stage. I put Tivo to work on getting me properly caught up.
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Rick, I can imagine…I know how my 5 weeks off felt last year…and that was an arm not a hip, so its much less limiting. Anyway, at least it is during the TdF! Someone crashed hard on our Tuesday morning ride this week (completely freak thing–a sink-hole showed up iinthe middle of the road, and a couple people braked, and …whala, someone hit it just wrong and flipped over. Not pretty. he is now looking at reconstructive wrist surgery today and 5-6 MONTHS off the bike… huge bummer. Things happen. I’m glad you’re healing! I guess you guys won’t be coming down for sisquoc/SLO next weekend, tho…
Cheers, and enjoy the croissants.
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Chatty – I was thinking more of stopping in at the local bakery ….
Todd – Welcome to the early shift. Tried it this morning, but had to leave just as they started up Super-Besse to get to the imaging center.
Doc Kim – Freak things are nasty; had a small bridge collapse under me as a teenager on a motorbike, so know the feeling. As for the wrist, the person should get a good hand specialist who is a cyclist and a PT person who is a cyclist. I totally munged my right wrist in 2002 (presumed to have been hit by a car); the orthopedic surgeon fast-tracked my recover after surgery. I started PT less than 4 weeks post op, was on the wind trainer a few days later, on the road just over 3 months post op, rode back to back centuries 4 months post-op, and was cycle touring in Italy just over 5 months post-op. I know all cases are different, but doesn’t hurt to see if th 5-6 months might be a bit too conservative.
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