I am please to announce I am back riding. This update is a combo of what I have been able to do lately and is a little different from my usual cycling content. Over the last 5 weeks my range of motion and strength has been improving consistently thanks to physiotherapy. I know I will still have to take a lot more time to get stronger before I get back into the groove of racing but being back riding is incredible. I gotta give a big thank you to Danika of Golden Ears Physiotherapy for all her help in getting me back on a bike. I cannot say enough good things about Golden Ears Physiotherapy and anyone who is looking for a good physio should check them out.
As for non cycling content I have been able to complete some of the work I wanted to get done on my car thanks to Trevor and Jesse(mostly this guy, I am pretty sure no work would have gotten done without ya buddy). I stripped apart my coil overs and replaced the boots, cleaned, and anti-seized them. Next up was my cooling panel which didn't go on as planned and I have wasted hours trying to make it work. Most recently I have been working on getting my seating position as low as possible; lots of s14 drivers have problems with headroom especially taller drivers over 6 foot. I will have more car updates coming up soon as I try to finish it and get back on the road. My goal is to get it done by the time Jesse comes back from Europe fingers crossed I don't have to many hiccups which are often associated with modifying cars.
I have been able to ride my xc bike a bunch over the last few weeks I snapped this after climbing saddle ridge by Buntzen Lake (iphone photography isn't my strong suit if you have noticed already)
Here is one of my early gym sessions while completing physio
I finally got my cooling panel for my s14 but it didn't fit at all so Jesse busted out the dremel and after 8 hours of cutting and dremeling we got it close to fitting. I still have to make more adjustments to get my hood to close not super stoked on that.
Last weekend I went to Victoria to help out the team with feeds and whatever else they needed. It was super fun to see everyone again (team mates and friends alike)
I did some modifications to my seat rails to gain more helmet clearance before this I had 3cm from the top of my head to the roof on the lowest setting on my Nagisa super low rails!!! Now I easily have enough for a helmet, tall people problems eh
The photo of me doesn't look like my seat is all that low but for reference this is my mom sitting in my car after I got the seat sitting the way I wanted it (she is 5"5)
Today I went out for my first endurance ride with Evan after an afternoon physio session. I cannot begin to describe how good it felt to be drafting and joking around on a bike again (Thanks Evan!)
As always thanks for reading,
Mike
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