Goodbye truck. Vaccine. Resignation.

Saturday 31st BIKE 5 miles!!!!!!
Wednesday 5th BIKE 5.7 miles

Whoo it felt good to type that. We did a ride with the kids, and AE and I did 5 miles together. I had a rear flat tire at the end, and my right ankle was sore afterwards for a day or two, but YES!!

This is a mixed up time post, let's see if I can piece all this together.

The first ride was on Saturday July 31st. I don't have my clip-in shoes, I think that might be a bad idea right now? The ankle didn't like flexing to push down on the pedals. 

Then for a few days, it was sore and swollen. I rested and declined riding. I was still wearing a compression sock, and some of the swelling was due to some food or something as both ankles swelled up. I'm working on what could be causing it, as always puzzling that out. 

I scheduled my first PT session for Thursday. I'm way behind on that, I need to call Dr B and reschedule the August 11th followup, but I'll wait for the first session to see what I learn first. I think this followup was to evaluate how the ankle was doing after a few weeks of PT. That was July 14 - and here it's August and weeks later no PT as expected. One thing at a time though. 

On Tuesday night, my truck sold. I miss it, the new car is not a replacement for it. I want to lament and miss it, but it's no use. It's gone. I've had that truck for as long as I was a triathlete - I bought it in Sept 2004 and joined the Tri Club in Nov 2005. It was mine and I loved it and never wanted to get rid of it. Now it's gone. Still sad about it. 

On Weds we went to Costco for a JnJ vaccine, I still didn't want it but knew I needed it. And now UM is requiring it. If LA, who had been skeptical of it all along, was in to get it, then we really didn't have a choice. I wasn't so much skeptical, I was more medical-hesitant. Even though I didn't have a rational reason for the hesitancy. After that, we found the local bike shop for tires and tubes. This is nothing like BS or SBR shops, there wasn't a racing bike in the whole store!! They can order triathlon bikes The second was a few days later on Weds the 5th., 

The ride was great, less pain, and I'm adapting my ride to fit it. The next morning after this ride, still more pain and a mild limp in the morning. 

And Weds night I submitted my resignation to the Margolis Lab. I had a lot of trouble writing this, kept tearing up and delaying the sending of it. It was supposed to go out Monday, then Tuesday, then finally I just hit the Send button. 

It's like all these Old Life things are ending all at once. It's hard and depressing. 

But - 797 days of dead Balrog and 72 days of dead M. Yes, I guess these old life things are ending, and it's not all bad.