{"id":2735,"date":"2016-09-25T23:32:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T14:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2016-09-25\/2735"},"modified":"2016-09-25T23:32:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T14:32:20","slug":"feeling-good-leg-healing-well-and-good-deeds-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2016-09-25\/2735","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Good: Leg Healing Well, and Good Deeds Done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

I posted the other day about ripping a calf<\/span> muscle<\/a> while playing\n“<\/span>livingroom soccer”<\/span> with my son, and lamented that I'd be out of action for a while,<\/span> because after a certain<\/span> age, the body just\ndoesn't heal as well as it used to.<\/p>\n\n

I took a careful approach, resting the leg as much as possible and having Kentaro Kataoka<\/a>\nlook after it daily.<\/p>\n\n

Surprisingly, I found that I could hobble after a few<\/span> days, and that it was good enough to make a ginger<\/span> test bicycle ride<\/a> after only a week.<\/span> It was still<\/span> uncomfortable at\ntimes when walking, but there was no pain when I rode,<\/span> so whatever muscle was ripped was not involved in cycling, at least so long\nas things went smoothly.<\/p>\n\n

So the next day I went on a long<\/span> (but still easy) ride<\/a> with Kyoto\nfriend Ionut. It was a<\/span> wonderful ride, much of it in the pouring rain that made me feel like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

I still feel pain in the leg, but not at all when cycling, so that's great.<\/p>\n\n

At the end of that first test ride last Wednesday, on the way home I was<\/span> riding along the Kamo River, which had flooded the\nprevious day due to a typhoon<\/span> near miss. It had apparently<\/span> been a mild<\/span> version of this flooding<\/a>. Anyway, the riverside path was littered with sticks and mud left\nfrom the flood waters, with the occasional bit of garbage as well, and at one point I had<\/span> to do a double<\/span>-take as I passed<\/span> some\ngarbage... the name of a local<\/span> bicycle shop (Silbest Cycle<\/a>) was clearly visible. I had to<\/span> go\nback and look.<\/p>\n\n

It turned out to be\na full<\/span> shop-original cycling kit<\/a> (jersey and bib shorts),\nsoaked in mud and leaves and bugs. Aside from the mud and leaves and bugs, it's an expensive bit of kit.<\/p>\n\n

My first thought was “<\/span>what is this<\/i> doing here<\/i>”<\/span>, and I couldn't<\/span> come up with a plausible<\/span> explanation,\nbut it was obvious that it wasn't just forgotten there and that someone might show up any moment to pick it up. So I picked<\/span>\nup the sopping mess and brought it home and washed it. It came out<\/span> nice and clean.<\/p>\n\n

So after the next ride, I stopped by the cycle shop and explained the odd story, and asked whether they might be able to send\na note<\/span> out to their club members. I figure<\/span> that someone who would buy a shop's<\/span> original cycle wear would be a member<\/span> of the shop's club, and it turns out\nI was<\/span> right. I got a<\/span> call from the shop today... they found the person.<\/p>\n\n

It turns out that the owner had a some<\/span> stuff stolen, and the thief apparently had no interest in\ncycling wear so dumped it by the river.<\/p>\n\n

So, on today's little ride<\/a>, I dropped<\/span> it off at the cycle shop for\nthe owner to pick up. Good deed done. Feels nice.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I posted the other day about ripping a calf muscle while playing \"livingroom soccer\" with my son, and lamented that I'd be out of action for a while, because after a certain age, the body just doesn't heal as well as it used to.<\/p>

I took a careful approach, resting the leg as much as possible and having Kentaro Kataoka look after it daily.<\/p>

Surprisingly, I found that I could hobble after a few days, and that it was good enough to make a ginger test bicycle ride after only a week. It was still uncomfortable at times when walking, [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}