My commute to work, and my new work. Power is back on.

COMMUTE: Monday, Tuesday,    3.7-3.8 miles each way

PT on Tuesday, 

The power came on Monday night around 6pm, while I was having dinner. The last few nights, the generator running in the dark reminded me of the generators at the aid stations. 

It took some looking to find all my gear - namely my bright pink vest. I finally found it in my shelf containers in the office bedroom. By Tuesday I decided I wanted real bike shorts, instead of yoga pants, much better and I feel like I have some cred. Also Tuesday I decided to check out the covered bike parking, it looks tiny and like it will fill up fast. 

Biking so far in AA is simple and seemingly safe. The first two days I mostly focused on finding solid streets. Liberty seems like it will be a favorite, especially once the little construction zone that blocks the home bound route is cleared from it. 

PT Tuesday: Ben got my ankle to give an audible POP and this seemed to be a good thing. The ankle has popped before, but it was a short fast crick that was closer to the side of my foot. This was right in the ankle. Just before this happened, I had asked Ben what was keeping my ankle from full dorsiflexion. He had an answer and a picture, and I love it. It turns out that for dorsiflexion to occur the big ankle bone that was underneath the bone chip needs to not only rotate under the calf bones, but also glide backwards a bit (towards the heel). The gliding back is not happening, so no dorsiflexion. And that is why he started last week to push down hard on my foot as if to get the foot itself to slide back and forth under my calf towards my calf. I love it when someone has the answer and it all fits and there's not ehhhhhh in the response. 

After the pop, I got even more manipulation to move the joint, in addition to the half-kneel on the foam pad with Ben pushing my foot back again. It felt to me as there was going to be another pop, but I didn't get it. I think I had one or two super mini pops? My goal now was to see if could get some stretch on the slant board (couldn't last week) and see how the ankle feels on the bike commute today (yesterday, painful to dorsiflex while pushing on the pedal, today better!). After bridges, clamshells, and the squat-shuttle thing, I was done. I told Ben I was skipping a surgical followup, and he didn't have a reason that I should be quickly rescheduling because of problems or questions and that all is good. Keep doing what I'm doing. Ohh, that's not always a good limiter for me.