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19 days later...

After New Orleans my riding took a catastrophic turn. My first ride was miserable, with a miserable average and a miserable asthma attack. Pink had to domestique my a** home. It was the worst asthma attack I've ever had. Good thing Atlanta's air quality is so high...

I thought I was done for, thought I had pissed away all my hard work from the previous months and particularly from my break-through training ride with Pink on the Silver Comet. But I was wrong. I rode this past Sunday, something short to observe any ill effects from the lingering asthma. I was okay. Not great, but okay.

Monday I rode again and felt tons better. In fact, since Sunday my average has been steadily increasing and I'm almost back to where I was before New Orleans. We've got a ride planned tomorrow out to Stone Mountain with one of the guys I work with but Pink has run into a little bit of a snafu.

On his ride this morning he had yet another spoke break. I think this makes about 5. So he took Huggy Bear into the shop and Mike said that bad things have been happening with the Felts. Lots of other people have had problems with their bottom brackets. Pink had also been having trouble with this (you'll have to ask him for the details). So it seems like Huggy Bear may have been a lemon. Chances are they are going to send the whole bike back to Felt and he'll get a spanking new ride. Huggy Bear II? Who knows for sure, still waiting to hear back from Mike - he could be off the road for some time.

Here's my opportunity to push past Pink...