90%

Breaking (good) news: apparently I'm not permanently damaged.  Every morning, aside from Thursday, I've noticed a improvement in the one really damaged area of my body - my shoulder.  Honestly, was kinda worried I'd damaged something internally even though ye olde ER xray showed no broken bones they mentioned "rotator cuff", then I made the mistake of googling it.  Thank heavens that it appears such horrors are not my injury.  I'd say I'm at 90%, still  have some pain when lifting things, but the awful aching is all but gone, and I haven't popped even an ibuprofen today.  

The bike?  No idea.  I'm waiting to hear back with a tally, but I'm in no hurry to push it.  I always push it and I always regret pushing it.  I've got a while like, what, three months left to ride?  Somethin' like that.  Helmet is trashed, and so are my sunglasses, but only because some idiot (hint: begins with M and ends with E) closed them in the tailgate of the van.  Oops.  My gloves are also shot, which again makes me thank everything for them.  In the past year this is the second pair of gloves I've destroyed, yet my hands are still here.  Hint.  Hint.  Hint. 

Come Wednesday if I wake up still feelin' good, I'm going to hit the spin bikes before work at the Y.  My Christmas goal is still out there, and I made another kinda big decision this weekend.  I was at a crossroads, after the 135 mile fiesta I was unsure if I should give up my 200 mile Dirty Kanza dreams and just ride, or if I should actually start really putting in some effort to train for it.  After lots of thought, and talking to my wife, the latter is where it's at.  Not sure what the plan is, but I'm starting to formulate one.  Involves a little quality time with my soon-to-be new friend Pella Road, and 5am alarms on Saturdays.  I'm sick, I know. 

Sick in a really, really good way.  Aside from my own personal gain all I wanna do is dispell the myth that nobody can do anything but give up in this country.  That's it.  In the process you never know, you might just have fun.