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Cycling: A Change of Adventure
It is time to accept it. Those grand cycling adventures, in the form that I have been experiencing them for the past few years, are gone. Cycling is not over, though. No way. It is too important to me. I just need to change the adventure that I experience through it. A Short History Cycling is massive for me perhaps because my history of bikes and Multiple Sclerosis are strangely intertwined. I actually only started riding a racing bike in 2012 at the tender age of thirty-seven and it was a crash on one of the early rides that led, in a roundabout way, to diagnosis. It was already there…
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The Best Laid Plans and All That….
This post was planned to be a triumphal celebration of another great achievement on the bike. Something of a yearly tradition since 2016. It is not. All the plans were in place, I felt strong, better than for a long time and well prepared for all that the Alps were going to throw at me. Then my own body threw something at me. It was not what I thought it would be. A Painful Surprise When the pain hit my right foot, we feared the worst. Stabbing pain around the big toe. Standing up and walking anywhere was….. unpleasant. A call to the casualty department of the local hospital did…
