Patrick, Many thanks for your posts. I'm so glad to read of your progress over the years. Your reflections are inspired and inspiring. (as are your bike rides and trips.)
"push what you can do further, instead of stalling out on what you can't do."--> indeed. Shoji On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 3:12:28 PM UTC-5, Philip Williamson wrote: > > I love that the bike has helped you. Quickbeams are especially > therapeutic, I believe! :^) (grin) > I just flipped my wheel around to the fixed side again. Seems right. > > I'm wrapping my brain around your self-prescription to "push what you can > do further, instead of stalling out on what you can't do," as well. Seems > like good advice. > > Philip > www.biketinker.com > > On Friday, February 13, 2015 at 5:41:12 PM UTC-8, Deacon Patrick wrote: >> >> This past week we’ve noticed a baby-step miracle healing, and as near as >> I can figure, the Quickbeam specifically plays a role. It’s nuanced and >> I’ll understand if you don’t read it, but I think it’s pretty amazing >> (doesn’t the recipient of a miracle always?! Grin.) and have yet to fully >> grasp all the ramifications if indeed it is what it seems to be. >> >> One of my challenges with my bludgeoned brain has been (and still is, but >> perhaps less so now) that when I encounter something that cuts through my >> brain like a knife through butter (laundry scents, diesel engines, ATV’s, >> chain saws, rude drivers, etc.), my adrenaline kicks in and bakes my brain >> and takes me days or weeks to recover. It looks like that may have >> dramatically decreased. >> >> I took an adrenaline hit earlier this week (not having any brain cushion, >> we expected a week plus recovery). I day recovery, and I got out for a >> recovery bike/run on that day! >> >> Then yesterday, I was riding errands (three stops, a record for me!) and >> after the Valentine’s Day bottle of wine store in the moronically played >> out parking lot I headed home through a veritable gauntlet of egit drivers, >> including one police SUV. It’s hard to be a biker in a smallish town not >> played out for bikes at all in the winter running errands and using the >> bike in a practical way when no one looks for people on bikes. Anyway, >> triggered my adrenaline off the scale (I was safe the whole time, just very >> angry). Figured this would be at least a week of recovery. Today? Recovery >> morning, wee 8 mile bike ride this afternoon. Feeling adrenaline free now. >> This is bizarre. This has been over 13 years coming. >> >> If you’ve stuck with this this long, you may as well hear the theory and >> why I suspect the QB is partly responsible. I used to avoid pushing my >> exertion level above an aerobic threshold level because it triggered my >> adrenaline. I learned to run up hills below that level so I didn’t trigger >> adrenaline. I couldn’t explain to myself or anyone else why I wanted a QB, >> why I felt a QB was different enough to warrant it being purchased and >> ridden beyond the Hunqaillar. After all, it is a bike and really, is that >> so very different? Yet I bought it anyway, dipping into our therapy account >> to do so (entering life as fully as possible is brain therapy, so my >> therapy account is put to unique use by most standards). >> >> My theory is this: having one gear to ride up hills pushed me regularly >> past that threshold that triggered my adrenaline. Yet it didn’t trigger it. >> Over the past year, my body learned that stress is not cause for releasing >> adrenaline. And somehow that seems to have helped with adrenaline recovery >> as well. How cool is that? >> >> Possible ramifications may include ability to withstand a few ATV’s on >> bikepacking trips without having to bail out early? I don’t know. But with >> my wife sick with the flu we all had earlier, I’ll likely be doing more >> errands this weekend. Grin. >> >> So perhaps this mini-miracle is co-sponsored by Quickbeam, Rivendell, and >> Grant. Grin. may God startle you with joy! >> >> With abandon, >> Patrick >> >> *www.MindYourHeadCoop.org <http://www.MindYourHeadCoop.org>* >> *www.OurHolyConception.org <http://www.OurHolyConception.org>* >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
