Back on my Bike!!

I'm finally back on my bike! After finishing the marathon my next goal was to get on my bike. Three weeks before my accident I bought a Kuota K-Factor. I road it twice before I ran into that stupid tree. So my lovely super fast awesome racing machine sat idle. It moved with my to the new place last year. All my other bike stuff went into my parent's basement but I couldn't bring myself to let it go. So all last winter and all summer long it sat in my room bagging me to take it out for a spin. I tried once in March but scarred myself badly with my lack of control.

I invested in a set of road bars and STI style shifters to replace the areo bars that the bike came with. I don't have enough shoulder and wrist control and strength to get in and out of areo position and shift a bar end shifter with my right hand.

My good buddy Drew helped me switch the handle bars, breaks and shifters out so my tri bike now looks like a road bike. I wish that I had opted for red tap. That would have been cool. I also replaced my tri saddle with a road one.

So far I have put 420 miles on my bike since mid October and I feel great!

Arm Update

So I realize that its been a while since I posted an update about my skiing injury. The last post about it was about a year ago. I'm pretty sure that the lack of self obsessive injury posts is a good thing. I've certainly moved on with my life not letting my limited arm use hold me back too much. The last year I've done ton's and ton's of international traveling, snow showing, started to cycle again, ran, and ran, and ran a lot. However I've been getting bunch of questions about how my prolonged recovery is going. So here's the update.

Shoulder:

My deltoid is still very, very weak. I can lift my arm up about 50 degrees straight in front of me. That is huge improvement from a year ago and is more than enough to reach out and grab the handlebars on my bike but there still is a long ways to go.

Elbow

My Elbow is doing the best. I can fully contract my bicep and lift 10 pounds! I can also extend my elbow fully against gravity with my triceps. I can almost do push-ups.

Hand and Wrist

My and wrist have not improved as drastically as the rest of my arm. They are further from the site of the injury and so it takes a lot longer for them to recover. That being said I am seeing some improvement with both finger extension and wrist extension. I can now straighten my fingers in natural and cock my wrist back just a little bit. From the beginning I've been able to flex my wrist and grasp with my fingers which I am still able to do.

Summary

All said and done things are going! My arm is continuing to improve and For that I'm very thankful.