MP--some people take "I could have easily died" and ride their couch for the rest of their miserable lives. You are just as alive as you ever were (and that's pretty darned alive), and finding a way to stay in it. I find it something to admire and emulate. You and Floyd Landis are examples to me.

("Well, Lise, Floyd won the TdF with a dead hip. MP rode incredibly hard, long rides with PEs throughout her lungs. Aaaand, your excuse would be....? Don't have one after all? I thought not!" )

Nanci, I continue to love Brokebike Mtn, too! You posted that link the week I went on my one and only date with the guy who did the MS 150 in TX. I sent him the link after we went out to dinner. Wasn't that sweet of me? Thoughtful? Fun? His emailed reply? "I'm really busy at work right now." And I was surprised when he blew me off for our second date?

Got my new running shoes with my orthotics today. Wore them for 2 hours, as instructed. Walked the 6 blocks to the grocery store and 6 blocks back. Can I count that as run training? I *did* swim 1/2 mile in Lake Michigan today (plenty of stopping and panting), and rode 15 miles today. Tomorrow I run in the new shoes. Not far, breaking them in.