Life Updates: ACL Chronicles at 7 Months

Return to full activity

Basketball

Now that the post-operative seventh month mark has passed, I've cleared myself for full activity. So I visited Berkeley to play basketball again with my spicy cilantro team... but in my excitement, I got attacked by a fence and suffered a 2 inch gash on my eyebrow. For a while I had a grey eye (it wasn't so bad as to call it a black eye) that I covered up with extra eye shadow.

Half Dome

In a twist of fate, I also celebrated my return to full activity by hiking Half Dome, a bucket list item I had for about four years now. Thanks to @elainejsu and her sister, I took up the offer for an extra permit for an EPIC Yosemite trip!

We started our hike at 4am and arrived at the cables at 9:30am. Almost to my disappointment, there was no ranger present to check our permits at the top. I've heard that if you start early enough, you might make it in time before the ranger comes and you won't need a permit. A riskier endeavor on weekends, I'd guess. I'll have to do Half Dome again for a SUNRISE HIKE!

Beat the Blerch!

In a previous post, I gave myself some pretty lofty running goals and trained for about 3-4 weeks before I started getting shin splints. I did too much too soon after getting back from surgery.

I've dialed down on the ambition and I'll just try to build my cardiovascular endurance back to 10km. My sister got me to sign up for Beat the Blerch in Sacramento on November 14th. Sixteen weeks to build back up from 1 mile to 6.2 miles.

I'm excited!

Other Active Plans

- Climbing gym at Planet Granite from mid-August through December.

- Archery lessons at SF Archers in February (hooray for living close to a non-profit archers club!) 

- Add to bucket list: Summit Mt. Shasta (Summer 2016)

- Add to bucket list: Outdoor bouldering at Joshua Tree (Winter 2015-16)
- Add to bucket list: Hike through the Grand Canyon! (Spring 2016)