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Bah

As it turns out, the pedals I bought for my bike the other day are the wrong thread size. I now know that the handle from my jack provides enough leverage to get the old ones off though.

Then, while putting tire liners on Teresa's bike, the bike pump broke. It only has 3 moving parts, and one of them is done for already. Fantastic. So I'll have to see if there's something out there better than Planet Bike (I'm certain there is).

Stupidity

Well, last Saturday I was feeling pretty good, maybe 90% recovered from the back injury. I thought "I know, maybe I'll go to the driving range to test out the new driver." Bad idea. By the time I was done, I was feeling worse than I did after the initial injury! Had to basically start recovery over from scratch. Starting to feel a little better today though.

The good news is that the driver seems to be working out well. Trajectory is good (though a bit on the low side if I don't tee it up enough it seems), and at maximum height it seems to hang there for a second longer than my old driver. I figure it's good for at least another 20 yards, but I won't know for sure until I get out to Ken McDonald and play a round. I was hoping to get better accuracy with the big driver (and I think I did), but I'll take the added distance bonus any time!

Out with the bad, in with the good.

My biking incident on Sunday couldn't have come at a worse time, because today I received the driver I won on ebay last week. I think I can swing a club, I just can't bend over to put the ball on the tee. :-( Now I need to get all healed up so I can try this thing out! Here it is compared to my previous driver, a Titleist 975D. Size-wise, the 975 is a 275cc driver, while the J33R is 420cc's (new models are 460cc). I'll have to hit the new driver a few times to see how it is, but I think I might get another Harrison Pro 2.5 for this one, as I've really liked it in the 975.

Pics for comparison:

Ack, pain

I went biking at south mountain again by myself on Sunday. Everything was going well, I even went a few miles further than previous rides. Then, about as far from the parking lot as I could be, I went over a "rapid decrease in elevation" (really it was only maybe 16" high), and came down hard on my seat. The force rotated the seat downward in front, and my lower back immediately started to hurt. The rest of the ride back was with my seat tilting down, all sorts of fun. :-P

When I finally got back to the car and had to load up the bike, I could tell my back was really hurting. By the time I got home and cleaned up, I was about done for - I could barely bend over without lots of pain.

Went to the doctor Monday morning, said everything looks ok and it's just a really bad strain. Here it is Wednesday night, and it still hurts significantly. Bah. :-\