2017 Summary

There's really not much to summarize, this will be very different from 2016!

No races, no travel. I'd be happy for the money saved, except I blew all of it and more meeting deductibles ($1500 and $3000). I ran up to the end of March at which point I finally saw Dr L, a few short runs before surgery in Sept, and now a few times in December. Tried twice to establish a swim habit. Once stopped because of my back, second because it got cold outside. Don't like swimming in the cold, even if I'm swimming indoors! :)

Biked to work through the year, except in Sept/Oct while healing the hip. Started logging walking after surgery so I could track increases and improvements.

SWIM 43600 yards in just under 18 hours
BIKE 633 miles in 57 hours
RUN 306 miles in 56 hours
BIKE COMMUTE 1595 miles (seriously?!) 
WALK 120 miles since surgery

Not logging the elliptical or strength sessions. They're really tiny on the pie chart.

Bird stayed on the trainer all year, with a worn-out retired tire worn smooth. Frea was stuck in the basement with flat tires, still with B2B stickers on the down tube. All the outdoor miles on Puppy. My Camelbak in storage along with all the other gear. Closeby is all the nutrition sugar I may end up throwing away. I have a new Garmin!

I first say Dr L for the hip/back in early April, and then started working with LH at ElitePT from April through June, at which point it was decided that PT wouldn't be sufficient and surgery needed to be considered. After seeing two surgeons, I picked the runner of of the two for surgery in Sept. After 2 weeks recovery I worked with JB at ElitePT from then through the end of the year. I still see Dr L weekly, recently testing out 10-14 day intervals, with success. By all accounts, the surgery improved things, but as I type this on Jan 4th, I still feel pains and tightnesses. The surgeon said this could happen for a few months, but it still grates on my obsessive-type worrying and thinking.

I spent the entire year No Sugar, No Grains. No Life Into Living as Vinnie would say. Started Keto in late November/early December. With these changes, I'm finally expanding my limited food choices and am symptom free for what I think is the first time in my life.

I'm impressed that I managed that much swimming. The biking was indoors but also Monday group rides in TGP with BE, IT, and sometimes JA. Running will get better, need time :)  Bike commuting, just 5 miles short. Oh well. It's probably mixed into the BIKE segment.

Great year, given the circumstances. Remember back in Sept after surgery when I got on the exercise bike and 12 mph was too fast? When I didn't want to go to the pool, but did and look how far I got --43.6K yards.

 And that walking? Yeah, in all the miles covered on foot the doggie and I found $11.96 in coin and $47 in paper! Really! Not gonna divide that out into money/mile. Or expect to find that much next year too!

ETA: And how could I forget to mention the eclipse this August! I'm getting ready to hit the Print button for the 2017 book and in looking for pictures I realized I didn't mention this. The eclipse was transcendental, I still get chills thinking back on it. Still have the images on my phone and computer screen. Still think that like the sun I eclipsed this year, a brief period of hiding before re-emerging.

In a way, coming out of my chrysalis.