Sidelined

Yeah the pain is to the left outside and underneath my left knee. The Doc says its refered pain from my Ibialtibial tract (IT band).

Im gonna play this one smart and rest a couple more days... Maybe I'll get out on sunday and see how it feels. I've using this roller thing that Kim Weixel let me borrow to do specific stretches and what not.

The work outs have been in the pool and they look somthing like this:
300 meter warm up (drills IM)
freestyle: 20 x 50 5 on :50; 5 on 45; 5 on :40; 5 on :60
Kick 500: whatever I feel like
IM 200 (swim in mixed order)
pull 3 x 100 (continuous)
Worst stroke (usually fly, but depends on how I feel) 12 x 25--> attention to detail
Im 100 (all out)
swim down... pull 100

some of those change... Like the distance of kick... The amount of 50 repeats... how fast I feel like swimming... How hard I feel like pushing... sometimes the Im parts turn to breatstroke... etc etc...

But you get the idea... Its certainly nothing like riding... But whenever one door is closed another one opens up.

On a side note I'm supper stolked to be racing with the platinum performance road team for the '08 season...
Its gonna be a lot of fun.
This will mark the first year they are running a road team and have experienced great success with their mtb team over the last couple of years...
Check out their website at:

http://platinummtb.com/

Who knows I may even get back on my mountain bike and try a couple of XC races again... Maybe put together a 24hrs team.

Good luck to all of those who've been working their ass off for the Everest Challenge. Its on the weekend of the 22ND. Taper hard and kick some ass. Its been pretty exiting the last couple of weeks with all the energy out there in the hills.