Treading water

Not much to say. I feel like I am treading water just waiting to be able to start training again. I have been doing core, leg and foot/ankle exercises once or twice a day including Ron Jones‘ push-up, shoulder and buns matrices, and a few “matrices” of my own; hip abductors/adductors with theraband, trikonasana/half-moon, and a chair pose series I learned at a Sarah Powers‘ workshop a few years ago. Of course I’ve also been juggling weights, but I feel like my juggling skills have hit a plateau or regressed a little. Then again, my juggling may be worse because I’ve mostly been watching the Tour de France while juggling and not watching the balls.

Today I finally got mountain bike shoes that are wide enough for my feet. They have been backordered since April!! I have to say that knowing what I know now it is probably best that I did not get them earlier. Since I didn’t have bike shoes that fit I wore the boot when I took Bonnie for bike rides which was probably better for my foot.

While looking for a clip of Knowing What I Know Now (which I did not find) I found some great Shawn Colvin videos on YouTube. This is from a VH-1 set, Round of Blues. Another from 2001, Nothing Like You. I can so relate to her comments in this interview. Not being able to get out on the trails, has made me feel a little trapped and made me wonder what I am still doing here.

She is one of my most favorite artists. I first saw her at the Lowell Folk Festival near Tanglewood, MA, in 1988, before she had released an album. I bought a cassette from her and practically guarded it with my life until her Live ’88 CD came out which was basically the same thing with a couple of extra songs. It is all acoustic, and I think she is very much at her best when it is just her and her guitar. She is also a triathlete so writing about Shawn Colvin is not that far off the “training” topic.