The Bright Spot in the Rain

Woke up this morning to a nice light rain, which is exactly what the garden, new flowers, and GrubX (for the lawn) needed. It has rained on and off so far today with some heavy stuff supposed to hit tonight. Tomorrow is hopefully dry with the rest of the week getting thunderstorms on and off. This may work out for the best for a couple reasons. We were hoping for Jake to run this Wednesday at the COC vs. OC meet Branson, but if it gets cancelled then he has extra time to recuperate. Additionally I am planning to race mtbs at Castlewood on Sunday, but they are protective of their trails (with which I agree) and will cancel it if they get much rain. Why is that a good thing; there is also a crit (Sylvan Springs) in STL the same day and I would like to hop in one as it has been some time since I last crit raced. So either way I am racing a bike in STL this Sunday. I like rainy days (summer or winter, it doesn't matter).

The upper right picture is from a Colorado rafting trip Jake, Deb, her dad, and I took two summers ago.

The BPT docs got Jake on a treadmill today and it was good for the first 3 minutes then the pain came back. It was not as much as before, but still there (as expected since it has only been a little over a week). The game plan going forward is to skip COC/OC meet on Wednesday, start him running on the track Friday (through the weekend), run him at conference meet on Tuesday (a week from today), Districts (May 16th), and sectionals (if they make it). He is going to run doped up on meds and with a lot of pain to get him through this and mega rest/recovery after track is done. The BTP docs don't expect the activity will cause further/more damage, but just a lot of pain while it is going on. With him i the mix the 4x400 and 4x800 have great shots at moving to Sectionals. He continues working hard on the trainer and is looking forward to getting back to him teammates.

Fitness: Strength workout this morning (burned the legs and lower core) and 1 1/2hrs of basketball at noon. Hopped on the rollers for an easy hour while Jake was rehabbing on the trainer tonight. How stinking cool is it to look over and see your son doing what you absolutely love; I'll tell you - VERY STINKING COOL! After looking at the pic to the left, it appears it is time to introduce Jake to a friend I call Mr. Sun (a little pasty there, boy).