Ironman Lake Placid : Official Thread (Page 147)

Anything I can do to get this thread up to 200 pages I'm all for. 

I was following him and was able to see him cross the finish line from the Iromanlive website.  He looked good crossing the line, including giving a little heel click at the finish.  Great Job Bobby!!

Yeah me too...tattoo pics are our only hope for 200

The outliine of the mountains in the drawings were based from this pic.  It is one of the revolving pics on the IMLP homepage of the website. 

Just trying to reach 200. 

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Jim - the only thing that would make that tattoo cooler is if you used a picture of me instead.

You know, something like this:

(just trying to do my part. How many pages is that now anyway?)

Jim I stopped by a place with your pic (imlptb4) last saturday. He didnt think he could do the detail of all those trees in a 2"x2" but was going to draw something up and call me.

Seadocha, your an animal. Good luck on the 9th and we need pics of the bike with new wheels.

Is anyone else sick or wounded? those get well cards ate up a ton of space :)

Let me know what he comes up with.  I will probably do something similar. 

My wife wont let me do the one of Tankboy (LOL). 

dang.

but I like the tankboy tat...

the IMLP with the tree backdrop one is nicer, though

even though no ink is going to be etched onto my body...

(13 more posts to the next page-we may need to settle for 184)

so, I'm not going to be able to do any bone, jarring things like running for 3 months...sigh...

at least I can lift my left arm all the way up to my shoulder now

and I can almost put my shoes on without help  (pathetic, I know, but I am very happy to not be paralyzed)-still takes me 3x the time to get dressed...who knew you needed your shoulders and arms for so much stuff--hey, I know who knows...Jeff C!!

Dude that is like my exact plan,  Though I may only get to two HIM.  I'll be up in LP to volunteer in 2013 just to get in line again

Sucks doesn't it? Yeesh...so frustrating trying to do ANYTHING.  It's definitely one of those "didn't realize how much you used it until it's hurt" locations.

I'm just now 8 weeks and still have some soreness after doing stuff.  I ran 12 miles yesterday and my shoulder was sore and exhausted.

Oh and how much it's going to atrophy! that will drive you to drink.

Mine was June 2011 and my shoulder still reminds me it's there.  I was lifting yesterday and am not able to push equally with injured shoulder. 

Lovely....

Well, I'm at 3 weeks, and I can put on my shirt pretty well and move my shoulder ok in the morning.  I won't be running 12 miles until 2013. (I hope...)

Slowly worse shoulder pain throughout the day and weakness/flexibility is non-exhistent when you can only do passive ROM stuff until the bone knits enough. But I can move the arm around a l lot better. I only needed the sling for 2 weeks.

Much worse will be the fact that I can't run or do anything jarring to my spine for 3 months, thanks to the compression fracture in my neck. And I'm pretty sure I still have 2 ribs that aren't together yet, as they hurt constantly still. But when it's only 2 and not 5, that's progress...

I am not a patient patient...

Hearing others' stories is helping-so, thanks...

Hope you all get some good training in this weekend and enjoy the long holiday!

Dale

I separated my shoulder a few years ago when I went over the front on a 100 degree downhill turn and used a metal guardrail to quickly decelerate.  It was my right shoulder.  Twenty years ago, I had chronic inflammation and pain in my left shoulder about ten months a year all through college.  By contrast, this was due to my aversion to the weight room and overuse in the pool and as a result I had some serious imbalances in all of the small supporting muscles and tendons around the shoulder cap.  I also had a slightly asymmetric stroke too.

In each case, either on the way to recovery from the bike crash or as I tried to manage the pain and flexibility problems during the swimming season, the funny thing was the only time I didn't experience discomfort was when I was actually using my body.

The lesson that has stuck with me from these experiences is to go slow with your rehab, but be consistent.  Do what you can and keep working at it.  Don't get frustrated by the pace of the progress.  You've each got a good three or four decades of racing still in you.  A body in motion will stay in motion...

FWIW.