My left ankle has been weird since last August. And I haven’t done much about it as there were enough things to keep me busy besides bike riding. But the lingering pain finally made me revisit the hospital to get it sorted. The worst case scenario I had in my mind was that an immediate surgery […]

I came to a stop right by a tram station as I was driving to a hospital. Then came a tram car, onto which a lady with a guide dog boarded. Seats were occupied, and she had a hard time finding a rail to hold on to after climbing the steps from the door of […]

Day 1 Fishy Peperoncino & Chicken Salad. Taste awesome and look healthy! Day 10 Feels like my guts are being minced. Body weight going down, good things go first. Food poisoning sucks. It was apparently a bad idea to keep boiled chicken in the fridge for two days, then consume it on salad without reheating. […]

A little while ago, I unintentionally slammed a table with a lot of energy and ended up snapping a bone in my left hand. Too much excitement is a bad thing. This 3D CT image from the palm side shows the shattered 5th metacarpal bone, the one at the root of the pinkie. The side […]

Now the sudden autumn thunder and rain are over, but I haven’t been riding much this week due to a lower back pain. It may be because of too much desk work, too little sleep, slacking in crunches, practicing on my bike nonetheless, or probably all of the above. It was even interfering with my […]

I went to the hospital yesterday since I was worried about the injury from the dirt jumping accident the other day. That is, since I was worried for by many people, fortunately. So here is the verdict – bingo. There were slight fractures in the 6th and 7th ribs on the left. The doctor said […]

Just hit the dirt trails for the first time in a while. I had been thinking about it, then the night before on Saturday, I bumped into old BMX friends I hadn’t seen for a while, and they totally talked me into it. So there were Mush and Takuma at the trails following that night, […]

My last injury last autumn was actually pretty bad with broken bone in hand and broken rib that punctured the lung. The doctor first said my left collarbone was broken too, which turned out to be bone chips from old injuries. And the other shoulder kept aching for a long time despite the lack of […]

My broken right hand is now good enough to go without the cast after three weeks and a half. Two days ago, I suddenly felt like “Ah, the bone has just got back together,” so I went to see the doctor yesterday although it was earlier than scheduled. The doctor gave me an OK, and […]

In Hanazono Resort of Niseko, there is a facility called bag jump, where you launch off a ramp on skis, snowboard or bike and land on a gigantic air bag. I hit it last month with friends and it was super fun. We vowed we’d hit it again during this season, but the operation has […]