Getting fried in the Devil’s Kitchen

A failure of a right leg.Before I even say anything, the Tour of the Catskills one day race was a disaster for me.  I felt good, I was staying well positioned in the group (riding up with the first 5 riders) and everything was going perfectly.  I stood up and accelerated to chase an acceleration off the front of the group and felt a pull and a shot of pain on the outside of my right knee.  Each pedal stroke for the next 5 miles was just like some sadistic devil sticking an ice pick into my knee joint.

Needless to say, with 'cross season coming up, I climbed off and accepted a DNF.  Fail.  Maybe I shouldn't have swapped cranks, maybe I shouldn't have swapped pedals, who knows.  Next year, Catskills, next year.

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