well, today was friday. it started okay despite the hour conference call with the lab while i was still half-asleep. then i changed up my wound and it seemed to be looking nice, went and had lunch with evilmike and baoke.

from there i went to the blakeley and oversaw the madness of moving everything and getting it cleaned out. at the very least i got everything out of my room and piled my stuff in the living room, plus moved all of the garbage i had to the garage. it was pretty exhausting, and i’m hoping more people are there to help tomorrow and sunday.

i probably won’t be though, since after helping at the blakeley for a while i needed to get down to the er to get my (healing) wound looked at. unfortunately, the bottom part was a little infected, so they had to open it up and now it will be a very busy time of changing the wound dressing and slathering on the antibiotics for the next month or so.

i am not very excited. in fact, i am substantially more dismayed than i was from the previous prognosis – at least that was a two-week fix or so.

bah. at least i got to ride my bike, 4.3 miles, fixed gear with one leg. my left arm is pretty sore from holding that side of my body up. still, i think i’m pretty much out of the competition now.

weekly total: 4.3 miles
cumulative total: 120.8 miles

well, i finally hurt myself doing an alleycat. hit by a car? no. awesome collision? i wish. i just fell down on a gravel road in the arboretum and tore my knee up something fierce. six hours at uwmc = no fun at all. i’ve got some gory photos for those of you who are interested in that. i’m on a serious antibiotics course, and i got some vicodin for pain control. i think i’m going to take some of that and hit the sack.

i did manage to make it 9.5 miles before i eliminated myself though. i guess that gives me an 11 mile day.

i’m going to have to build up a one-legged bike if i’m going to stay in this competition.

weekly total: 116.5 miles
cumulative total: 116.5 miles

sunday was my day of rest. i saddled up one last load into colin’s trailer: piles of bike stuff, my road bike, and a few other miscellaneous large items. i then tossed on my fixie and hauled it all up to the house. when i was done i returned the trailer – i still need to thank colin for his generosity.

i then headed up to church to run the soundboard. afterward came the final blakeley bbq, which was good but tinged with sorrow. i was glad that charlie got to make it to one, even if the tofurkey dogs were a little… furky for my tastes. still, we did manage to finish off the keg of bridgeport. my total mileage for the day? a paltry 7 miles.

today was beautiful, despite the fact that i went to sleep relatively late and had trouble sleeping, i woke up and got to work. i got a quick half-mile ride in for lunch as i jaunted up the ave for some delicious bahn mi, and then after work i rolled out to ballard to drop off a tire with the grifter and meet up for bible study. that actually went really well and i was excited to see how engaged people were with the text. afterwards we went down to ivar’s for their delicious late happy hour and i convinced lindsey to ride her bike instead of wussing out. afterwards i pressured her again and got her to ride all the way home, with my escort and encouragement. the total for that? another 15 miles. but i wasn’t yet done, i got home and loaded up my trailer with bike parts for the recycled free rack, a monitor for work, and a bag of clothes for donation. a surprisingly quick four mile round trip brought this up to a 21 mile day.

weekly total: 105.5 miles
cumulative total: 105.5 miles