Its not the distance, its the heart. You already have the heart; the distance will come. Congratulations...nobody, but nobody, gets dropped around here. Can't think of any local riders around me who haven't had to take significant time off for medical or other reasons....but everybody comes back, never as soon as they'd like, but soon enough.
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..... "I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time." Mark Twain, Speeches
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