Ongoing fitness battle

Though I ran fairly diligently and regularly between the beginning of 2006 and the end of 2011 (as I had done semi-regularly prior to my 1993 accident), I have not been able to run since December 7, 2011, due to pain in both my back and my left knee. When the doctor delivered the verdict of arthritis last year, and said I needed to make up my mind that running was now finished for me, I was outraged. However, my good friend Doug Tidd has been working for some years to convert me to bicycling, and since the doctor thoroughly approved of this non-impact activity, I made the switch, beginning on an elliptical machine throughout the last half of 2012, and riding outdoors in the early part of this year (when the weather made this feasible - which was very seldom). I now also have a blog about my biking - http://ride-ab-ride.blogspot.com/