I lived in Pine Mountain Club when I turned 40 and for my birthday my wife had a party with BBQ and a softball game at the field there. A friend slid into 2nd base and dislodged something in an old knee injury. He and I planned to do the loop you know as the Heartbreak Hundred the next day and he went anyway with the sore knee.

We drove out to start at Lockwood Valley road and we got all the way around to the center of Lockwood Valley when his knee just locked up. He couldn't move it either way. I was really tired but set out to get the car and pick him up. I guess he got tired of waiting because when I came back in the car he was pedaling with one leg hanging out in the air.

He had surgery that week and came back strong.