The Weather Conspires Against Me

July 10th, 2008 by Ryan Schenk in Quickthoughts

I had surgery on my ankle 14 days ago, on June 26th. Looking back at the wind speed archives, it has been windy enough to kiteboard on 10 of those 14 days, or approximately 70% of the time I’ve been laid up. I guarantee you that when I heal, we will have no wind at all.

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Comment by Sander |
2008-07-10 16:27:04

Schenk - I think with the combined brain power of you, me and the D we could make you bionic.

 
Comment by Jesse |
2008-07-11 14:09:38

Did the surgery have anything to do with kiteboarding related injuries in the first place?

Comment by Ryan Schenk |
2008-07-11 14:12:20

No sir, it did not. The problem with doing “extreme” sports is that you always injure yourself doing something stupid like walking from your car to your porch.

 
 
Comment by Jesse |
2008-07-11 14:22:00

Yeah. I was body surfing in the ocean yesterday (which I do NOT consider extreme) and mashed into Alicia… HARD. And though I outweigh her by 2x, the hardness of small shins beats the power of big toes. Thusly, I may need foot X-rays when I go home, limping.

Huh, “thusly”, who knew…
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/thusly

In other news, we still took her Subaru off-roading (or ON-beaching) this morning. Ripping across beachy dunes at 40+ mph searching for wild horses WAS a little intense, especially since EVERYONE else out there had a Jeep or better and our ground clearance was NOT what I’d call “comfortable”.

Comment by Ryan Schenk |
2008-07-11 14:24:27

Nice. I’ve taken our trusty Subaru Legacy onto the beach. The fear of getting stuck certainly made for an adrenaline rush…

 
 
Comment by Sander |
2008-07-13 15:34:46

Subaru 4 life (or something equally hip-sounding)!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HU0jz4lCYgM

Comment by mike d. |
2008-07-14 08:30:54

Sander! You’re behind the times! We were looking at this back in January.

http://www.mikedidonato.com/2008/01/30/from-shamus/

 
 
Comment by Sander |
2008-07-15 11:44:59

Darnit!
Here I was hoping this nifty video would take people’s attention off of my fatness…

 
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