Next up...cycling!

Since I'm temporarily suspended from running because of the IT band injury, I've decided to focus my efforts on biking. So far biking hasn't bothered me at all and PT cleared me to bike all I want. I was thinking for some time about trying road racing next year, so I started checking into it and found a team that still has an open roster and seems very friendly and welcoming. Team Zoka is a smaller team and up until this year have had only one female racer. They have invited me to a training ride this Saturday to meet them and hopefully join up with them for next year. It sounds like there will be an additional two female riders also joining for next year.

I'm very excited to start riding with a team -- it should be a lot of fun. So, if things go well on Saturday it looks like I'll officially be riding for Team Zoka next year. Woohoo! I have no idea what I'm thinking since I haven't ridden in ages...

IT band blues

Physical Therapy today made it official that it's pretty much impossible for me to run the Half Marathon this year. Ugh. My knee has been horribly sore since running on Saturday and I didn't even make it over two miles. My therapist said I'll be lucky to get back to running in 3-4 months. I was also told not to bike for at least two weeks (which sucks since it's nice and sunny out).

I guess I'm done for the year and I'll start looking ahead to the Whidbey Island Half Marathon in April. Depending on how therapy goes I *might* be ready then. Whoever thought a stupid piece of connective tissue could cause so many problems...geez. I guess this will be a nice time to work on swimming for a while.