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leg is fairing better than expected. r.i.c.e helping.
6 hours of testing with 1, 2, 3 hour days with minimal area soreness around the wound after the 3 hour day.

i stabbed myself in the right leg (abductor muscle) with a 1/2″ long exacto blade… i think it went in more than a 1/2″ since i was applying so much force when the knife unexpectedly slipped and jabbed into my leg. it missed the major artery by 1/2″ and left a 1/2″ long, gaping wound.

i was at work late about 11:30pm getting ready to leave on my bike when i decided to cut some plastic part before i left. it wasn’t bleeding but it felt horrible and i wrapped some tissue and packing tape around it… I knew that I would have to make it home quick while the endorpins set in before any real pain started. so i set off on my 20 mile ride home instead of going to the hospital. at times i was in some real genuine pain.

during the ride i noticed that i could not push down on the pedal without it hurting and i could feel that i severed some muscles since i could feel the ends of the torn muscles pulling strands that were split. ouch… i modified my pedal stroke to minimize pain but starting after stopping was really slow. hills were impossible so i had to ride up with one leg. i ended up being about few minutes slower than average after twenty miles as my average speed was slower and i guess i have about less than 50% power capacity in my leg. i did notice that i was kind of ok when i kept a certain cadence and used other muscles to help.

i walk with a slight limp, cant use my leg to stand from sitting, can’t run and can hardly ride a bike. i went from riding 200 miles last week to 40 miles this week.. running 20 miles last week to running 8 miles this week, swimming 6 miles last week to swimming 2 miles this week, strength training 5 hours last week to 2 1/2 hours this week…

i’ve taken a few days off from everything to get some rest and heal… its working and i’m slowly going to be progressing back into everything in the next week; having to put less stress on my leg but keeping the rest of me in top shape.

its 4 weeks until my first race this season (newport) and 6 weeks out until wildflower (the difficult one with the killer hills) and 11 weeks until the half ironman… this injury comes at a bad time — when i was trying so hard to avoid getting sick, avoid injury and when i was doing so well in my training… it’s a real bummer. the real plus side of this is that i am going to heal really fast and i have some real motivation to get back to where i was before injury — i don’t want to just “finish” my races… i want to be competitive. I am not worried about the newport tri coming up… its just another workout to prepare for the rest of the year. I am concerned about wildflower — it is just another workout; but it is a challenging one as it will determine how competitve i will be in my half IM.

its going to take some work.

this weekend i purchased a racing wetsuit at tri-zone — the Orca Sonar…

i didn’t get a chance to test it out last weekend because of the holiday festivities (i was kinda pissed) but i will be sure to swim a mile or two open water this weekend… i’m already a fast swimmer so i am banking on making it to T1 even faster now…

today i purchased some technical running gear–some ua shorts and a long sleeve top… and yet another water bottle… everything is always dirty — i wish my stuff was self cleaning

**update**
later this week i purchased a new race suit as i wasn’t completely satisfied with my tyr race singlet and shorts. The new Orca Distance race suit matches my wetsuit and will be easier to use and i like the slightly longer leg inseam. Orca sizes run small — word to the wise.

i am really thankful that daylight savings time has come early this year.

i’m the type that gets out of bed earlier and to sleep earlier when its daylight savings… i actually get more done because i can get to work earlier and have some fun in the sun on the beach afterwork…that is IF i get out of work at a decent hour… … it helps that the temperatures are like summer now — i saw a lot of people running sunday and i was kind of bummed i didn;t go… well i went to the museum and laid out on the grass at the park…kind of putted around the house cleaning / organizing and went to the market…

it looks as if the end is near for snow season… dave and i trekked out to mt high saturday night and while the expert and intermediate trails were like godiva white chocolate sherbert the kiddie slopes were sow poopee… i might make it up there one more time this season… or not.

my day was f*cked up today since my neighbor decided to play a 30 second acoustic guitar soundclip on repeat for more than 4 hours until i pounded on the door several times and then called the super at 2:30 AM to complain — he suggested i try knocking one more time and then go downstairs and shut the guy’s power off… he’ll get a notice from the super and he already got a nasty note from me. its the third time this has happened. next time i wont even knock. i will shut the power off and padlock it and maybe padlock his door. i got less than 4 hours sleep and i went to bed at 11pm…. and dint fall asleep until like 3 or 4am even though i took a pill…

i was falling asleep at my desk today and had to skip the gym because i forgot my wallet with my ID and money ( i ate top ramen and half a powerbar for lunch– yuck — thats all i had hidden away)

i have to go buy a wetsuit this next weekend… and pay for some more races….

tomorrow i have to run on my lunch hour since i cant run at lunch on wednesday (the day i bike/run/lift/bike) since i have a 4 hour meeting at lunch…i wish it was scheduled some other day.

i have a deadline coming quick and i still havent finished the deadline i am on…

i could go on and on…. blah blah blah

prelude:

Immortal Technique Bin Laden (Remix) Lyrics
“I want the world to know you won’t beat us because were the children of
those who took the worst fall, of slavery and brutality that ever existed
Our parents survived the middle passage, only the strong got here
And then we lost our name, our culture, our religion, and were still here
So you may have a momentary victory Mr. Bush, but you don’t know who we are”

[Immortal]
I pledge no allegiance, fuck the President’s speeches
What the industry did to ‘Pac they did to Jesus
Rapin’ his vocals and destroying his message
Tryin to deport us if they can’t destroy arrest us
Government front religious, but thier heart is empty
Like a televangelist preaching out of his bentley
Calling abortion murder in a medical building
But don’t give a fuck about bombing Iraqi children
Talking like units in the fucking libretto
Look at thier mansions and look at your suburban ghetto
The gulag, the new hood where they send us to live
Cause they don’t give a fuck about none of our kids
That’s why blacks and latinos get the worst education
While devils run america like “Birth of a Nation”
Affirmative action ain’t reverse discrimination
That shit is a pathetic excuse for reparations

[Chorus: Immortal + KRS]
Bin Laden didn’t blow up the projects
It was you, nigga
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)
Tell the truth, nigga
(Bush knocked down the towers)
Tell the truth, nigga

[Immortal]
They say that terrorism revolves around the Qu’ran
But that’s stupid, I’ll show you why its totally wrong
Cause if this country was invaded and crumbled
I’d turn Harlem into a columbian jungle
And I wouldn’t be fighting for a Christian nation
I’d be fighting for survival from extermination
I wouldn’t fight for Fox News, them racist niggaz
I’d be fightin for the hood, for the faceless niggaz
I’d be fighting for the immigrants america loves to despise
Even tho it needs them to make the economy rise
They feed us genetically modified garbage
So I repetitively reload the cartridge
Boston, New York, down to Atlanta
Guerilla war in the swamps of Louisiana
Camera panoramas of hammers couldn’t rock me
East coast to West coast you can’t stop me
And fuck Schwarzenegger, his pops was a nazi
And it runs in the family so run for the grammys
Run to the coon picnic and try to pick up a mammy
But half of y’all are faggots tryin to pick up a tranny
Eddie Murphy ass motherfuckers goin commercial
Even Interscope is gettin pimped by Universal
{?} sounds like green tooth lantern something {?}
But the Bin Laden slush fund remix just worked you

[Chorus]
Lyrics > Immortal Technique Lyrics > Immortal Technique Bin Laden (Remix) Lyrics

Mumia Abu-Jamal
The war against us all. This war in Iraq isn’t the end; it’s the beginning of wars to come all around the world at the whim of the neo-cons in the White House.

This is the Bush Doctrine come to life: war, war, and more war. War brought to you by the big corporate masters who run the show.

This isn’t just a war on Iraqis or Afghanis or even Arabs or Muslims. It is ultimately a war on us all. That’s because the billions and billions of dollars that are being spent on this war—the cost of tanks, rocketry, bullets, and yes, even salaries for the 125,000-plus troops—is money that will never be spent on education, on health care, on the reconstruction of crumbling public housing, or to train and place the millions of workers who have lost manufacturing jobs in the past three years alone.

The war in Iraq is, in reality, a war against the nation’s workers and the poor who are getting less and less while the big defense industries are making a killing—literally. What’s next? Iran? Syria? North Korea? Venezuela? We’ve already seen the corporate media play megaphone to the White House to build and promote a war based on lies.

It’s been a long time ago, but that great Russian revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, said, “War is utilized by the imperialists, first and foremost, to crush internal enemies.” We’re seeing the truth of his insight when we see the sad state of American education, the rush of seniors to buy affordable medication from the Canadians because American drugs are just too expensive, the threatened privatization of Social Security, and the wave of repression that comes with an increasingly militarized police. Does the Homeland Security Department make you feel any safer?

In Black America things get grimmer every day as resources that are already scarce begin to shrink even further. Young people feel that prisons are a rite of passage, an inevitable place to visit. And a decent job seems like a distant dream.

This is a war on all of us, and the struggle against war is really a struggle for a better life for the millions of folks who are in need here in this country. The fight against the war is really to fight for your own interests, not the false interests of the defense industries, or the corporate media, or the White House.

Down with the wars for empire!