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Setback For My Again – BionicOldGuy

October 11, 2024
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On Monday I did my higher physique exercise. Every part went positive besides through the horizontal pull with resistance bands, the strap attaching the bands to the deal with snapped whereas underneath loads of pressure. This despatched a twinge by my decrease again. It felt positive on the time so I completed the exercise, and went on a motorbike trip with no points. However later within the day my again obtained sore and stiff. I feel it’s only a muscle pressure, because it obtained a bit of higher in a single day. I’ll take it straightforward over the following few days and see the way it goes.

I changed the deal with and this time I backed it up with a rope. I often examine my bands as a result of they will snap after they get outdated and worn, however I’ll now add inspecting the handles.

Issues had been going effectively up until this setback. Saturday I did my higher physique exercise after which a straightforward trip. Sunday I did an extended arduous trip, with intervals, and it felt nice. Yesterday I simply did a straightforward 30 minute trip. Saturday’s trip is posted on Strava right here, Sunday’s right here.

Lovely sky over southeast Morgan Hill, heading in the direction of San Martin

Sunday I additionally went with my good friend Joseph to some backyard railroads in our space, one in Gilroy and one in Hollister. The house owners are enthusiastic about their hobbies and put loads of time and creativeness into them, and it was enjoyable speaking to them.

Prepare Coming Out of a do-it-yourself tunnel in Gilroy yard. The proprietor’s son is a civil engineer who makes a speciality of site visitors initiatives so was capable of plan the format utilizing Autocad.
Yard practice in Hollister. The engine within the foreground is a Challenger (barely smaller cousin to the well-known “Massive Boy”). To be able to have sufficient steam energy to stand up mountain grades, these had very lengthy boilers. That made the engines so lengthy that to go round curves the chassis needed to articulate underneath them. Within the background is a Shay engine pulling up a steep grade. These needed to be geared so low to stand up the grades that they’d a high pace of solely 15 mph. There are nonetheless some operating on the historic Roaring Camp and Massive Timber railroad close to us in Felton.

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I’m a Mechanical Engineer born in 1953, Ph. D, Stanford, 1980. I’ve been lively within the mechanical CAE area for many years. I even have a lifelong curiosity in outside actions and health. I’ve had each hips changed and a coronary heart valve alternative resulting from a genetic situation. This weblog chronicles my adventures in staying lively regardless of these bumps within the street.
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