Au Revoir

We can finally sleep in. After 3 weeks of daily 4 hours stages of the bike race, I have some tendonitis in my remote control hand. :)


Our favorite commentators, Phil & Paul (with the Arc de Triomphe behind them)
"I reckon" and "round about" have slipped into our parlance.


This is how we spent each morning for the last 3 weeks.
Well, the champagne was only for the last day.

I am studying his form.

And his tenacity.

Sightseeing in Paris.

Carlos Sastre is the winner of le maillot jaune, the golden fleece, that darn yellow tunic.

1 step forward............

2 GIANT steps backwards.... stepping right back into my real age group. so sad...

after that little run there has been soreness.... I'm presuming I did no damage, but I guess the new knee was NOT ready for weightbearing activity. Now, I know that when I get back to that good point, to give it some more time, and maybe walk ONLY, then walk/run.

So, it's been a week of icing, and spinning the bike, and swimming.

But I was able to make it thru the entire Tour de France. Well, there is still tomorrow morning to watch. After we go swim and bike with Pam and Tami and the rest of their gang. That reminds me.... pack the camera.

Tri - ing the New Knee

the scars are little

i really must work on the size of my quads...

So, I did go for a run.... 1 mile of run for 2 minutes, walk for 2... then on the mile back it seemed like I should walk all the way. So i did. But hey, I was running !! Yahoo !!

And then I swam in the lake for 30:00, and now, I'm going to ride my bike to the optician's office.

It's like I'm doing a triathlon today .

(10 weeks since my last run, 7 since the operation)

Look at Me

Look at me, I'm A -annie
Running on a brand new knee !
I won't write the blog, til I've gone for a jog,
I can't, I'm A-annie.

You know, of course, to sing this to the tune of "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" from Grease.
Now you know more of what's on my iPod.
And yes, I did come up with more verses, but it scares my sister to know I have so much free time.

53 is the NEW 33

I had my 5 week follow up appt. with the surgeon. He immediately starts in again with the time frame for recovery for the various age groups (under 30, 30-50, and 50+) and is telling me how I should be feeling due to my age, what I 'should' be able to do, maybe run at week 12 .... but wait a minute ! No, I don't have pain walking down stairs (thank allah cuz our house has quite a few) and Yes, I can kneel on it ( I think he liked it when I proved it, kneeling before the almight surgeon) and Hey! I'm using the elliptical machine, and spinning, and swimming, and look at that photo... is that almost a complete knee flex ?? He had to admit that I was not "acting my age" and said I was more in the 30-50 grouping. So, of course, I put myself at the lower end of the range. :) You can see by the look on his face, that doc is quite pleased with the results of his work. He said 8 weeks out, or maybe a bit earlier, I should try running a bit. But probably not ride the bike with the clip in shoes til almost Sept. We'll see about that. If my foot isn't hampering things I'd be feeling pretty good.


My acupuncturist buddy, Tami Hansen...
She's the reason for my knee flexibility.





Doc Holland....






a recent sunset


cuz I wasn't sure if I had posted this.. Allah forbid I go back and read my own blog.





the newly flexible ATR

yes, those are my daily footwear, the sandals. Yes, with sox. I hate sandals.


Gina has her Dansko's and I have my Josef Seibels..

Kudos all around

Val wins again ! This foto is not recent.. but I find I could use it anytime Val enters a triathlon. This past weekend she took first place in her age group in her hometown (Ventura, CA) race, the Breath of Life Triathlon.




Here is my niece Mary Kay Capon, who recently passed her "Bac's"... she lives in Paris, France (well, really a suburb) and the Bacc. is a bunch of really hard tests at the end of high school. I know they are hard cuz my sister emailed some sample questions, fortunately I only had to take kind of hard Regents exams in NY state. We await word on what school she will attend next year.
She's is smart, and more importantly, a kind and compassionate person. I don't know how my siblings are doing it, but they certainly are raising some great people !!


Oh, and that is the new beau (see I parlez a little francais) Antoine. Not to leave him out, I think he passed, too.

Me ? well I did swim twice this weekend for 40 minutes each time. And today I went for a 20 minute "run" on the elliptical machine. Progress, for sure.

New Swim Buddy

Pam joined us for a swim today. Her first open water swim with wetsuit. Yahoo !
We'll do a bunch more so she's comfortable come Danskin tri time.


getting the wetsuit ON is THE workout.