First time on the bike in 4 weeks!

The title says it all. My road bike is still trashed, but that doesn't stop me from going on grouprides. Every year, the club meets at Wes's house for night mountain bike rides. My mountain bike is a total piece of garbage and needs to be thrown in a ditch, but hey, it's all I have right now. I spent a little over an hour fixing it up, tuning the derailers, putting my road pedals on it and all that stuff.

Despite being crippled for a few weeks, I didn't do half bad tonight. The group did a usual 26 mile route, and I remembered most of it. There were a couple climbs but they weren't too bad compared to last year. I was riding at a CAT 4 level before my wreck, and now I'm lacking a bit. I'm pretty sore from the ride, mostly because the seat post on my mountain bike is an inch short, and I'm already half an inch over the max on the post.

Chad Payne, a rider in the group has set his mountain bike up so the bike's dimensions are almost identical to his road bike. I'd really like to do that too, but honestly I feel that it would be a waste of money on the bike I have now. I'm sure the parts going into the bike would cost more than what the rest of the bike is worth. Speaking if which, I was planning on buying a new mountain bike before I wrecked. Sure would have been nice /sigh :(

Oh yeah, if anyone reads this and feels nice enough to give me a 700c shimano 10speed compatible wheel it would really help me out a lot. It's basically all I need to resurrect the beast :P

So much for the training going well...

I haven't felt like posting about it, but two days after my last post on September 23rd, I had a really bad wreck and broke my collar bone. I was scraped all over and I'm pretty sure I bruised a few ribs because it still hurts taking deep breaths. The figure-eight brace came off last Tuesday after wearing it for two weeks. The bone has fused back and I've got 80% of my movement back, but it's going to be a while before it stops hurting and I can really move my arm around. Also, the deep gash on my left side still isn't healed. I think it's going to take a full four weeks for that stupid thing to close up.

My bike did fairly well considering it flipped down a road at 40 Mph. The new saddle I bought is torn up, but it's still usable. The bar tape is a little messed up but overall fine. I lost my tail light somewhere...and my rear wheel is pretty warped. I'm not sure if the wheel can be straitened out or not. I'm thinking it would be possible, but on the other hand, I think the wheel is going to have to be replaced. I want to be on the trainer NOW! I've been going crazy sitting at home the last few weeks being unable to ride a bike. I pulled my mountain bike out of the garage and put it on my trainer. The tire doesn't make contact with the drum so it's just sitting there right now.

I guess it's nice to have some time off. I just wish it was an optional time off because I'm seriously ready to get back on the bike now before it gets later in the year. I'll be able to actually ride my mountain bike outside in a few days. If not, pushing it back to the full four weeks wouldn't hurt.

Wrecks are stupid.