Originally Posted by Richard Cranium

It doesn't have to be about "starting over." Your current cycling efforts can be about just a "new start."

Unfortunately, each year, each season we bring along all of life's breaks, bumps and bruises along whether or not we notice if they are completely healed or not. For most of us, our good memories stick and the work and stress of getting to the physical level to create those "good memories" is forgotten.

In your case, you've had experience with really bad breaks and still successfully used cycling to move past those limitations and back a considerable level of health. Now is the time to remember the positive aspects about your past successful cycling comeback and realize your goal now is not to recreate your cycling abiliity, but recreate your zest for life and good health in general.

You effort now is to focus on the little steps, not the "big picture." Realize and enjoy your past accomplishments and frame your new found situation in a way that can make sense to your current ability.

Its no longer about "how far you can ride" - now its all about "how you can ride far at all."

Ask yourself - how did Lance do it? You wanna talk comebacks? And remember just riding at all puts you ahead of most of the crowd.