Push the Button

So, yesterday was the big day, surgically speaking, to remedy my torn meniscus. Since a picture tells a thousand words, here is the shot from the arthroscope of the offending cartilage:



Not quite sure of the scale here, but the arrow points to a piece of torn cartilage, the big white sphere at the top is the end of the femur, and the end of the tibia is below the cartilage. So the good news is that the MRI was correct - I really did have a torn meniscus - and that nothing else appeared to be out of order (in particular the articular cartilage, which is attached to the bone ends, was undamaged).

Now begins the rehab. Since my initial hiatus from running in January, I've been making extensive use of an indoor bicycle, which I've learned can be a lot more fun if you listen to suitably upbeat music. (The woman at the bike store who sold me the bicycle trainer, which enables a standard bike to be ridden indoors, swore by the merits of techno, and I can honestly say that she was onto something.) The Chemical Brothers have become a mainstay of my training regime - were there a Grammy for best indoor training soundtrack, they should get it. (They can settle for the two Grammies that they did win, I suppose).

The Chemical Brothers website is particularly good, including plenty of full-length videos.

And here is the track that won the Grammy for Best Dance Recording:
Chemical Brothers - Galvanize