The Beach and the Big Chainring

            I haven’t been the best at updating what’s been going on with my ankle, but I partially blame that on the pain meds I’ve been on since surgery. J Speaking of which, surgery went great, well, you know, as great as surgery can go.             This post is probably going to be a bit disjointed but I just wanted to post a quick update on how the surgery went and how things have been since. My first cast, immediately after surgery             The surgery went just as they expected, which I guess is good. They had to replace two of the ligaments in my ankle, and they did so with ligaments from a tissue bank. The incision is really huge (scroll right on past the picture below if you don’t like medical kind of stuff…it’s not that bad, but better safe than sorry), but my surgeon but dissolvable stitches on the inside to help minimize the scarring. I told him I wasn’t super concerned about it, but I’m thankful he was able to do that nonetheless. The incision is