Nature Valley GP Stage 1

Well, Pozzy and I are in Minnesota racing the Nature Valley GP. I've heard a lot about this race, but never got around to doing it, as it's a 15 hour drive from home in Niagara Falls. We broke the drive up by stopping in Milwaukee, and staying the night at our friends house, Tim and Sherri Conway, who we met through host housing for Superweek 3 years ago.

Yesterday morning I woke up with a very painfull nerve problem running through both of my legs, in the same spots. It's hard to explain exactly what it is, because I really don't know what's causing it, how I got it, or anyting about it. When I need to flex my legs for anything, walking up stairs, sitting down, sprinting, or climbing, I get a very deep and extremely bad pain through both of my quads. This has happend twice in the past, but the last time was well over a month ago. I can ride, and go hard, but the pain hammers me when I have to stand up on my bike. So in today's 8k TT, off the start ramp, I had to remain seated, as well as comming out of the turn around.

I felt good in the TT, but I couldn't stand up on the bike what so ever. Certinly not meant as an excuse, but not exactly a helping hand either. If the pain doesn't go away before tomorrow's road race, I might be a spectator before I even get on my bike. Pozzy said he felt anything but good in the TT, and he finished 1:07 back. I was 3 seconds slower then Pozzy at 1:10 back, the winner, Chris Baldwin of the Navigaors team rode a fast 8:40:19.

Hopefully tomorrow our "post Ras-good legs" will come around, and the race report will have some good news! If anyone has some ideas as to what this mysterious "nerve pain" could be, feel free to e-mail me bucker@cyclingteam.info as my doctor had no clue!