293: A Summer Off the Bike

The Pedalshift Project: Bicycle Travel Adventures

This summer has been unusual compared to past summers... I haven't been on an actual honest to goodness bike tour yet! So what have I been doing? Would it surprise you to know all of it ends up having a fair amount to do with bike touring?

Pedalshift Live - 9/11 8pm ET Haven't been on the bike because I'm playing caregiver at home, but a fun tour on the horizon Will announce that tour in a few weeks on the next Pedalshift LIVE

• Sunday Sept 11 at 8pm ET
• Celebrating 1 million downloads of the show - what has the show meant to you?
• AMA
• Summer to Fall tour preview
• pedalshift.net/live

A Summer Off the Bike Helping with my partner post-surgery

• Interesting insight into how our bodies wear out
• Hips and knees man, hips and knees. And shoulders!
• Recovery time and PT
• The resilience of the human body

Prep for the next tour

• Mostly new, some I've done before
• A lot of question marks toward the end of the trip - may be stealth camping a lot, may be in hotels?

Dealing with my foot issue

• Trying to get to a doctor before I go
• Treatment on plantar fascitius is all over the place
• RICE
• Ibuprofin
• Night splint
• It is improving, but how will that be after 60 mpd?

Getting to fighting weight

• Didn't follow my usual plan so I'm heavier than I'd like
• Have a decent shot at getting down to a reasonable weight before the tour
• That's also helping with the mental game and the foot for some reason? More confident.

Pedalshift Society

As always we like to close out the show with a special shoutout to the Pedalshift Society! Because of support from listeners like you, Pedalshift is a weekly bicycle touring podcast with a global community, expanding into live shows and covering new tours like this summer's upcoming bike tour! If you like what you hear, you can support the show for 5 bucks, 2 bucks or even a buck a month. And there's one-shot and annual options if you're not into the small monthly thing. Check it all out at pedalshift.net/society.

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Music

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