Rebuilding XII - Some Assembly Required - Tiger's Back

“At some point in life you have to face your fears, and head on even though you can’t be sure of the outcome. A great deal of people will never reach their dreams and it won’t have anything to do with their ability or skill set. They won’t reach their dreams because they were too afraid to try.” Eric Thomas

Announcement

Welcome back!  Time to shake off winter and start up again.  I apologize for being away for so long.  It's more than just the off season.  My leg issues really hit me hard.  More on that later.

Shake it off - 1

I'm joining Team PAWS 2014!  That's right!  You are probably wondering how I am going to join if I can't run.  Two words my friend, Aqua Bike!   I signed up for Illinois Tri Championships AquaBike division on June 26th, Olympic distance.

http://paws.convio.net/site/TR/TeamPAWS/TeamPAWS?px=1010063&pg=personal&fr_id=1040

I'm also seeing a new therapist.  He is an Ironman too so I can at least trust that he understands my motivations.  I'm two sessions in and things are going well.  It may be a while before I run a race but I might be run jogging soon at the very least.  Next post I will have more information and will discuss my treatment. It's really funny what he said though.  Take in mind he hasn't met me before and never heard of my blog.

He said.

"You aren't broken, we just need to rebuild you." 

It tugged at some strings because well it's a recurring theme in my blog.  Many of my friends who know where I've come from know just how deep the theme of rebuilding is for me.  

But let me get back and at least start by apologizing for my absence.  It's hard being in this spot.  My legs are still acting up.  So I dropped off the face of the planet.  I gained weight and I got sad.  It's really rough going to physical therapy for 30 sessions and losing out countless hours of my life and not getting anywhere.  It's done, I can sit and be pissy about it but would I really be a tiger if I continued down that path?

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No of course not. "People born in the Year of the Tiger are thought to be brave, strong, stubborn and sympathetic. The tiger represents the greatest earthly power, as well as protection over human life. It chases away the so-called 'three disasters': fire, thieves and ghosts." 2 Listen just because I personify a tiger because my birthday falls in its particular zodiac doesn't mean I fit it perfectly.  Being human means your fallible.  I can only try. So again I apologize but I'm back. I will be an Iron Tiger one day.

Kick-Off Fundraising Party

I will be hosting a kick-off fundraising party the first or second weekend of March with a raffle off, and some other exciting contests!

Details to come on the event.  I encourage you to come out and have a drink!  You might just safe a puppy or kitty's life.

But drink responsibly - 4

Anyway, here is an interesting video that sort of relates to running and caught my interest.


Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures from John Goatstream on Vimeo.

As always, thanks for reading.

References

I reference wikipedia because this isn't a research paper.  I don't need no APA style.

1 http://imgur.com/gallery/zsqLe
2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_in_Chinese_culture
3 http://i.imgur.com/Vs5TyaU.jpg
4 http://i.imgur.com/Z8d30jx.gif