Getting My “Tires” Rotated- Maintenace NEEDED

So this week after adding the 9th plate on my leg press, I came to the conclusion that I needed to back off and get some maintenance.   I see a chiropractor, but I’m was looking for a specific kind and found Dr. Mruz.  Hey, he’s George Hincappie’s chiropractor (you know the Tour De France cyclist from Greenville, SC) ! I lucked out. He’s the guy the cyclists go to and I thought this guy will know what to do with me.  He also does Applied Kinesiology so I’m sure he can turn on some of those muscles that sometimes get shut off due to spinal subluxations and what not.

I go to see him on Thursday and honestly my hips are slightly rotated from all the damn straining and training. I have to show myself some love and get this fixed up. I think my biomechanics are off; however, I ran 16 x 200m today with a 100 jog between at 29 seconds a piece in 34 degree weather…so I can’t be THAT OFF. In fact, I got colder as the workout went on, but just ran smoother and faster all the way up until the last one. It was so good I thought about doing 30 of them and then thought I might be crazy, so I backed off.  DAMN IT FEELS GOOD TO BE IN SHAPE! Did I mention I maxed out on cleans (on my legs) yesterday?!

 Those 3 months in Colorado Springs turned me into a beast. So I must race soon and hopefully if things work out, I’ll be racing this weekend. After this Lyme Disease death-bed-ordeal, nothing hurts anymore.    Yikes, talk about a calloused body!  Is this why Lance Armstrong did so well after cancer? Did I get lucky getting sick? I guess I’ll find out soon enough, but from what my workouts indicate, I think so.

I’m going to see my Chinese medicine doctor tomorrow.  She’s amazing.  She knows everything about me before I even say a word and sometimes she makes me cry. She’ll say things like, “Perry you have tightness in your throat don’t you? You need to let go of what you’re trying to hold on to and I just want you to be aware of this issue so that you can let it go”….and she is always right each time!  And the she sticks me with a lot of needles and it hurts….but it works.  I’ll be exhausted from it like I got hit by a bus and then two days later I’m better than I ever was.  I wish she would travel to races with me.  She might be my secret weapon…my own zen master!

Honestly the beginning of this week has been an emotional drain. I was looking over my editor’s notes on my new book, The Tick Slayer, and it’s very hard to read what I wrote because I want so badly to close that chapter in my life.  I can’t edit it without getting upset all over again.  My best friend from high school shot himself the same year I got sick and the only time I regressed during treatment was when I found out.  But his death changed my own feelings about life in a positive way.  So it’s interesting to read, but for me, it’s really tough reading my own words about it.