What workout did you do today?

[pararich]

Awesome to hike in the mountains, arndog!
I've joined a gym that has good equipment for a para including standing frames, motorized leg bike, fes bike, machines.
Tomorrow I go for intro session with trainer.
I also got a Rx for getting started on a fes bike with a PT.
Just another attempt to get myself moving.
I am working at a farm using my arms and hands all day processing vegetables for market.
But, still no hand cycle!
I'm learning about managing money in a course. A big part of it is saving up for things like handcycles!

[My395]

Originally Posted by pararich

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But, still no hand cycle!
I'm learning about managing money in a course. A big part of it is saving up for things like handcycles!

If you cannot currently afford to buy a handcycle on your own, you could consider applying to get one through the Challenged Athletes Foundation. http://www.challengedathletes.org/

[My395]

Originally Posted by fuentejps

i ran the bike leg of a triathlon yestwerday. 15 of the hardest miles i could imagine...... huge hills. as the elite bicycle guys were going by me they were off their seats cranking hard. everyone was offering encouragment. the other cyclists were awesome to me. i was the only gimp. one hill i had to backcrank up dam near the entire thing. my wife and training partner road as my support riders. couldnt do this shit w/out them, all the training every week, my wife dealing w/ my moods. if you read this babe , THANK YOU and I LOVE YOU.

THE COLUMBUS MARATHON WILL BE A BREEZE AFTER THAT.

Awesome job! Sounds like the handcycle has been great for you. It has been for me.

And props to your wife for putting up with you

[My395]

Originally Posted by steve garro

I've ridden darn near every trail there on my bike, and for the large part they are all good! the ones that run along the road to the ski area {both sides} are all good. i'd like to ride "over the top" {that's the actual name} to well, the top of the mountain. it starts at the toll booth to devil's postpile, before you go down, on the S. side of the road, although you can ride all the way to mammoth all down hill on the left/N......gonna be in bishop on the morning of the 15th for b'fast @ schatts & then maybe a paddle @ convict lake, then on towards Oregon - Steve.

Missed this post before. Hope you had a good time in the Eastern Sierra.

I'm looking forward to riding the trails at Mammoth next season. The bike park is closed for this season.... which means ski season is one the way!!!

Still plan on riding the One Off some more before it gets to cold though.

[My395]

I've been riding the handcycle on the trainer in the garage for at least one hour, 3-4 nights a week. Tonight I did a solid 1.5 hrs on the trainer plus stength training.

Got a weight bench and some dumb bells for the garage instead of going to the gym and have been doing a lot more strength training since getting this setup.

I'm doing the Long Beach Marathon on my handcycle in about a month. I'm not much of a racer but it is just one more thing to keep me on my fitness routine.

[fuentejps]

Originally Posted by My395

Awesome job! Sounds like the handcycle has been great for you. It has been for me.

And props to your wife for putting up with you

thx all.

yeh, the hc is great.

training w/ my wife and friends is awesome too.

i took this week off. start back sunday training. needed a break, my shoulders and back were talking to me, lol.

thx everyone for the kind words.

[pararich]

Originally Posted by My395

If you cannot currently afford to buy a handcycle on your own, you could consider applying to get one through the Challenged Athletes Foundation. http://www.challengedathletes.org/

Thank you. I'll try that.

[live2ride]

Sounds like everyone is getting amongst it! I guess your weather is changing again so make the most of it. We have just had our first nice week in ages and its been lovely getting out riding early without having to rug up. Crunch time at uni for me - 3 months till I have to submit my PhD so life is pretty dull at the moment - writing, riding and gym. Hopefully I can keep my sanity intact to the finish line LOL.

[arndog]

L2R- care to share what your Phd is about?

[live2ride]

Environmental Science. I spent almost 20 years working in water quality, river and wetland health and water allocations (hydrological modelling). My PhD is trying to model (ie build a computer simulation model that can be used to run different scenarios of river flow-flooding and climate) a large inland wetland system using time series of satellite imagery. So basically I've stitched together satellite images from every 16 days for over 15 years and then calculated the 'greeness' of the vegetation and related that back to the inflows, flooding and climate.
The wetlands (over 100km long and 50km wide when in full flood) are located on the downstream end of a regulated river system which has a massive dam in the headwaters and irrigation (cotton mainly) in the lower reaches. So trying to juggle how much water gets to the wetlands and how much goes to irrigation is tricky (especially when there isn't a lot of water to share).
Unfortunately my injury came after I started the PhD so its been a little interrupted and I couldn't really do the amount of field work I would have like... and then the cycling stuff happened so that slowed things down as well.