This sucks a$$! I should be riding!

[Sunridge Sledhead]

Rub some dirt on it and come ride with me!

 

[Wyoming T/A]

i know how you feel--i was out for 5 weeks with a severed tendon in my right hand but it healed real good and i only missed 2 good powder days---heal fast--sorry to hear the Dr. wanted me out for 8 to 10 weeks but the Mona-vie must have helped it heal quicker-he couldnt beleive how fast it got better--all the snow in the mountains helped heal it too

 

[onlyrotax]

Hard lesson to learn. I am pushin 40 now and have to give everything I do more thought. 1 back surgery a couple years ago due to lifting a sled wrong.....done it a million times before, bit me that time. Now I stretch before I stretch and make sure my kids are close when it comes time to lift anything over 10 lbs..I have to make them think it is all part of my good parenting keeping them in shape so I dont lose my "dads the man" status. I dont eat spicy foods the day before a ride, dont kick the dogs because I could break an ankle, roll out of bed instead of sitting up first, brace myself in the shower and stretch again before I dry off, eat fish oil pills to lube my joints, then stretch again before I head to work, plan my daily constitutions because the damn fish oil lubes more than the joints, of course stretch before I sit to think about that.......but when I am on the mountain, all bets are off. Good luck with your ribs buddy, stomp on his toe when you get back to class.

I hear you, just wait till you're in your 50's, you become one calculating $.O.B. at that age, calculating how to jump off the trailer without twisting something, calculating how you can lift up the rear of an iced-up sled without throwing out your back (I found an old bumper jack works great for that), it sucks but what ya gonna do, give up everything but running the remote ?

 

[Rock Star]

Rub some dirt on it and come ride with me!

ha... that's your answer for every thing! Must be a Texas PT school thing. (insert sarcasm here) LOL

 

[Puff_N_AK]

Don't worry MPS, i spent Thur-Sat cutting it up in waist to chest deep. I put in a few climbs and carves for ya. Rest up, and get even with that kid.

 

[MPS]

Rub some dirt on it and come ride with me!

haha...I will rub something else then come ride with ya. Puff_N_AK you SOB! haha and yes I will get even, always do!

 

[storeytellin]

I hear you, just wait till you're in your 50's, you become one calculating $.O.B. at that age, calculating how to jump off the trailer without twisting something, calculating how you can lift up the rear of an iced-up sled without throwing out your back (I found an old bumper jack works great for that), it sucks but what ya gonna do, give up everything but running the remote ?

I will just keep calculating, must be why the older I get the smarter I feel. Each year I learn to enjoy each ride instead of enjoying each victory over other riders. The victories over others become less and less, but the enjoyment of riding gets better and better. I now just look at alot of the steep sled busters and know I could if I really wanted to....just dont want to, thats what I tell my kids anyway. Still playing harder than a lot of them, but now I put more thought into what playing today will feel like tomorrow. I am with you, wont ever give up, but put a lot more thought into how to get things done. Engine hoist in the shop does all the lifting now.

 

[onlyrotax]

I will just keep calculating, must be why the older I get the smarter I feel. Each year I learn to enjoy each ride instead of enjoying each victory over other riders. The victories over others become less and less, but the enjoyment of riding gets better and better. I now just look at alot of the steep sled busters and know I could if I really wanted to....just dont want to, thats what I tell my kids anyway. Still playing harder than a lot of them, but now I put more thought into what playing today will feel like tomorrow. I am with you, wont ever give up, but put a lot more thought into how to get things done. Engine hoist in the shop does all the lifting now.

Thank's for the beers Storey, I'm not giving up by a long shot either, the kids don't care if I don't highmark anymore, (they're tired of digging me out), but they still want me to go because I'm the only one who can fix a sled if it breaks or doesn't run right and I'm the one that comes prepared for most anything besides I still enjoy kicking their arses in a meadow race because I'm the head clutch tuner, LMAO.