Road Race, Take 2

After DNFing for the first time ever a few weeks ago because of ulnar nerve problems, I made some changes to my mountain bike setup and, even though it still gets a little numb when I’m riding for a long time, I’m not experiencing near the loss of strength and coordination that I had a couple of weeks ago. Of course, being the exercise science geek that I am, I have to have a metric of measuring improvement…

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I’ll have you know that just two weeks ago, I had to use two hands to pick up the nearly-new 5lb can of whey protein. Now I can palm it long enough for Ryan to snap an iPhone photo…

So I’m ready to give the road racing thing another go with the Mississippi Grand Pix Stage Race. I missed it last year because of my miniature nervous breakdown that prompted me to sell the TT bike and get in to this MTB stuff. This year should be interesting because I’ll have a team with me. Of course, Debbie Milne will be there as well. She’s been injured, but I also haven’t been putting the time in on the road bike, so I’m sure the battle will be lung-searing as usual. One missing “player” that’s usually on the podium is Shannon Koch (see link to her site in the blogroll). Previously, she’s dominated the time trial and made us race for 2nd on Sunday. However, this year, she’s off racing in Europe (another on the long list of former Metro teammates that have since become even more awesome).

Hey, I’m working on it.