The first night of three to four very looooooong weeks.

You know what I LOOOOOOVE to hear? I love it when a doctor says "yeah Mike, we see this a lot with endurance athletes YOUR AGE." What!?! My age? Dude, I'm only 37! But, I guess he knows what he's talking about - insert sad face. As it stands both the doc and the ortho believe that I have a tear in my left meniscus from...in his words "to many miles." I'm not a fan of surgery...ever...so we're working through this naturally. Believe it or not they let me choose. The recovery time is longer but long term it recovers strong...or so they say. I have a followup in two weeks with an MRI and then again one to two weeks after that. So, no jiu jistu, karate, running or squats for three to four weeks. Insert another sad face.

Do the Fates hate me?

Have you ever wondered that. Serioulsy! I can get up at 5am every morning and train my butt off in the gym, Tuesdays and Thursdays I can also scrape out time to train karate in the evening, but for some reasons the Fates simply don't like me on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays. Which just happen to be the days for Jiu Jitsu. I can hit one...maybe two a week (if I'm lucky) recently with the load of crap dumped on us at language school. I shouldn't complain I guess, there are much worse places to be in life, but I do NOT like missing jits! I guess this is just a venting post. I feel like every day I'm not there I loose the expertise that coach has (which I only have access to for a few more months). Also, I feel like I let my team mates down by not coming to train with them. Iron sharpens iron right? If one side isn't there the other suffers...and I've been suffering becuase of it.

So, I'll be there tonight because the Fates forgot to assign my body weight in homework tonight :) I'll post more later!