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Race Day Again

Finally, we get to race again! As many of you know, I was injured last April 4, 2024. I had a disk at L4 vertebra collapse and pinch a nerve in my back that caused over half of my lower leg strenth to disappear. I had a lot of atrophy in my right leg quad and I have been recovering ever since. I am close to 100% on strength and the right leg looks like it is very close to normal size again, but it has been a battle. I have been working in the gym, doing pilates again and also running. All of these things must be done in balance so you can get the proper rest and recover. I still do full body massages every two weeks and I also have been working with a Cox Technique Chiro since the injury on a weekly or biweekly basis. The chiro has gotten me stretched back out and the pressure off the nerve, that treatment has been the real source of healing in my opinion. MY normal doctor was not any help, but this is not what normal doctors do--naturally healing. The first meet of 202...
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High School Athletics and Memories from 50 years Ago

 On December 13, 2024, Riverview High School athletics department invited the boys AA High School Basketball State champs back for a little celebration and recognition of our achievement.   We won the title in March of 1975 at St Johns Arena in Columbus, Ohio in an overtime thriller against Dayton Stivers.   Riverview was not favored by any stretch , but we had only lost once previously in a game we just forgot to show up and play after we won the league title a couple nights earlier--we knew what we were doing.   The Riverview team prevailed and we took the big gold trophy that sits proudly at RV today, and it set off an incredible celebration.      Coshocton County has three high schools--RV, Ridgewood and Coshocton.  Coshocton is the city schools and the other two are the rural schools.   All were good at basketball in that era and we had some great games among these schools.  No Coshocton County high school has wo...
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Jump Ahead

 Hello to all the faithful readers out there is the ethernet.  As you know, I have been dealing with an issue with a pinched nerve in my back that has been affecting my right leg strength.  My leg strength is back to 85% according to the squat machine at the gym.  I use the type of machine that has belt around your waist and you hook up to an arm that connections to the weight rack. This machine does no put any weight on my lower back and allows for leg strength development.  Progress has been made and I am also running a couple days a week at the Pettit Ice Center in West Allis as well.   Things are coming along.    About 6 weeks ago I began doing weekly pilates classes.   The pilates has been very helpful in generating flexibility and strength in  my lower body.   The sessions are around one hour and they are very intense and I am enjoying the improvement in my body strength and movement. I plan on continuing these ...
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Curiosity

 Curiosity is a very important part of our lives.   I would not be an engineer if I did not have sufficient curiosity to go into buildings with production machinery operating and try to figure out what they are doing.... Without the curiosity to look into the next chest of pulp to try and figure out what is happening to that material.....To challenge your body to find its limits and short comings ....   I am curios by nature and I like it that way.   My chiro work is proceeding and next week we will cut back to one visit per week from the current two visits.  He works on decompression and also lower body flexing near the bad vertebra to get pressure off the joint and relieve the nerve pinching pressure.   We are getting some progress in his opinion and he is my major care giver at this point.   We have discussed what I can and cannot do in terms of exercise.   High Jumping is a definite No No at this point.  I ju...
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Recovery. One More Time

 It has been about 10 weeks since I pinched the nerve in my back causing the muscle control issue in my right quad.   I am seeing my chiro twice a week for treatment and we are gaining on the process--s. l. o. w  l.  y.   I did visit my regular doctor who prescribed some steroids and also discussed some surgery technics.  I took the steroids and was superman for 4 days and but I wrote her a note about the other procedures and told her I would wait for Fall until thinking about that stuff.   I want to run out the chiro work first.   He said it could be up to 9 months for a full recovery and I got the time.    I am making progress, my lower leg buzzy feeling on my right side is basically gone.   But the quad control is still muted, with an occasional problem with my right leg just giving away for a split second and then I catch myself and keeping on trucking. Those occurrences are becoming less and less. ...
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The Aging Process

 As you get older, you understand the aging process from first hand knowledge, your body lets you know you are aging through its queues and hints.   Sometimes it is subtle and other times it is sudden.  On April 4, 2024 I received a  queue from my body concerning my back.      I had severe pain in my right leg and lost about half of the strength and function in the leg--just like a door had shut.  Bam!  I could not really walk, had a miserable time getting comfortable and could not sleep worth a damn.   Life had changed very suddenly for me.    The message was delivered on a Friday and I got to my chiro-- a Cox Technique Chiro- on Monday and he started the procedure to decompress my L 4 vertebra which had a disk that had collapsed and was pinching a nerve causing the loss of muscle control and strength in my right outer leg.   Inner leg was good, as was my left leg.  I also have nerve related feelings i...
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July Racing News

July was a very busy month in terms of my track and field. I ran a regional meet at Time check at the finish Pretty much the entire meet at Spire Spire Institute in Geneva , Ohio followed by the Senior Games Nationals in Pittsburgh and followed by the USATF Masters Nationals in Greensboro. Three road trips in one month was a lot, but I got in some great racing. The meet at Spire was a regional affair where I ran the 100, 200 and high jumped. This meet was a prep for the two National events that were looming on the horizon. I stayed with a college friend while in Geneva, he lived 15 minutes from the track and that made for a great visit and saved some hotel cash as well. The meet was about as wet as I have ever been involved. I jumped first and finished the day with the 200, which was the last event on the track. It rained, not hard, but with an unbroken stream the entire meet The rain finally quit during the 200 meter heats. Just wet the entire meet. I did bring my tent a...
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