{"id":180,"date":"2003-09-28T08:38:13","date_gmt":"2003-09-28T13:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jackswriting.com\/?p=180"},"modified":"2007-05-01T08:42:37","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T13:42:37","slug":"race-report-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jackswriting.com\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Race Report 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0Down with week three and beginning with week four. The headaches are subsiding (however they reappear when the rain comes-sinus-ugh!!). The memory seems to be coming back but there are still lots of blanks.<\/p>\n<p>I have dreamed several times\u00c2\u00a0about the 7th of September. I see a fork in the road. I look down one path and I see me sitting in a wheelchair with a shawl around my shoulders on the veranda of a V.A.\u00c2\u00a0hospital with spit and pudding running off my chin. I have been running like hell down the other leg of the fork ever since.<\/p>\n<p>I still can&#8217;t sleep in bed so I am in my Lazy-Boy chair, partially propped back with my feet on a cushion on a wooden TV tray with my toes\u00c2\u00a0pointed toward the heavens (reminds me of a pelvic exam but then again I&#8217;ve never had one). An hour later I wake up and feel like a piece of scrap paper that was wadded up and thrown in the corner. I walk around for five minutes to get the joints working again and off I go to sleep for another hour and a repeat.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry I missed Jon&#8217;s surprise birthday party Friday night. I do some strange things and Jean was afraid I would dance naked with Jack Wiswell&#8217;s band Rumplestump so she made me stay home. I may have danced naked at home and, because I&#8217;ve been sick, a rumpled stump was visible.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m taking Endocet every six hours, Dilantin morning and evening,\u00c2\u00a0and Motrin every six hours. I don&#8217;t feel any difference when I take the medications so I&#8217;m thinking of going back to the old college standby, Whacky Tabacky. The problem is that I&#8217;ve checked in Joe Friel&#8217;s &#8220;Triathlete Training Bible&#8221; in the food\/medicine section and can&#8217;t find directions for how much and how often.<\/p>\n<p>During recovery I&#8217;ve had lots of time to think and I may have solved the Florida Locker-Room Fiasco. When I did Alcatraz, the waves and swells splashed in my face because I&#8217;m a right side breather. I spent the rest of the summer and that fall learning to breathe bi-laterally in the water. Is it possible that the guy in the locker room heard from another member of the YMCA\u00c2\u00a0that the guy swimming\u00c2\u00a0in the pool goes &#8220;both ways&#8221; and became confused??<\/p>\n<p>And finally, for those of you who read my training reports from Florida last year you probably recognize that I&#8217;ve always been at least a half a bubble off true level. So when I recover completely, will I be back to where I was or back to normal where I&#8217;ve never been?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for\u00c2\u00a0your thoughts and prayers.<\/p>\n<p>3\/4 Goofy Jack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0Down with week three and beginning with week four. The headaches are subsiding (however they reappear when the rain comes-sinus-ugh!!). The memory seems to be coming back but there are still lots of blanks. I have dreamed several times\u00c2\u00a0about the 7th of September. I see a fork in the road. I look down one path [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-email"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jackswriting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jackswriting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jackswriting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jackswriting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jackswriting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jackswriting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jackswriting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jackswriting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jackswriting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}