krystlechung Krystle Chung
Just ran 5 miles. I feel like I'm going to die. Right now.
@krystlechung It'll keep you healthy, and not fat like me...
It got me thinking about a summer job I (and my would be brother in law) had when I was 16... I used to ride my bicycle 14 miles down from Angwin, CA to Calistoga, CA, to do yard work in a Mobile Home park all day, and then ride home. Man, I was bushed when I got home. I couldn't eat enough food to keep up with all of the calories that I burned. I had just gotten to the point to where I didn't have to dismount my bicycle on the way home going uphill. It's a big hill. Then, going downhill, to work, the accident. I crashed going downhill around the hair pin turn on Deer Park Road. It's right there on the map where the big D is for Deer park. A car full of student nurses passed me up just prior to the corner, and then the driver slammed on her breaks, to slow down for the curve, right in front of me. It was either hit the back of their car, or go off the road into gravel. I ate the gravel. Broke my leg, and went home for the summer. I never did get back into that kind of shape again. It's hard work. It can also break ya. LOL.
Now some 30 years later, I find it hard to try and loose just some of the weight, and get some of that energy back. For what it's worth. I'd think that it would be easier to maintain a decent weight, and stay in shape, then try to get back into it. Trucking, Smoking, Drinking, none of that helps as you get older either. Better to stay away from those things from the start.
Was there a point to this post? Nope. Other then just reminiscing...
But I guess that I'd like to know, has anyone else had something like this happen to them? Get to working hard and then BOOM something happens to you, and you don't go back to what you were doing?
This post was originally posted on my Posterous Blog Nov 2010
