Twitter Me

I’m still not 100% sure of twitterology, but feel free to twitter, tweet, twit, follow, etc.  - http://www.twitter.com/ryanbickerstaff  The simplicity and brevity of the posts are nice.

Shoulder Injury

Around April 21st, my left shoulder started to hurt again.  I had just done a short quick set in the pool of some 25, 50, and 100y efforts.  It felt a little bit funny and really noticed something was wrong when I went to the gym afterwards to do some strength training.  When I tried [...]

Training is Going Great

Training has continued to go great since the Stanford Treeathlon last month.  Everything has pretty much gone according to plan, and I really like it when I know I’ve put in all the work I wanted to do.  Hopefully the results take care of themselves when my racing season starts next month.  The only adjustments [...]

Back from Oklahoma

I just got back from a 17 day trip back home to Alva, Oklahoma on Tuesday.  It’s always really noticeable how different Alva is from where I live now when I take longer trips like that.  It’s not really better or worse, just different.  The trip was good, and it was also nice to take [...]

AC Joint Injury

Last night my shoulder was getting progressively worse even with just minor movements, so I set my alarm for 8am this morning to call the Sports Medicine department at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation when they first opened.  This is a really good place to go and the doctors are all experts, but my past [...]