With the craziness of planning a wedding, this year will be a hiatus year for cycling races. However, my training is going very well and my fitness is feeling really strong. Today, I was out doing a recovery ride with Josh and Jenny. We were going to en easy spin to Winter Garden out and back via the trail. About 2 miles after we turned around to head back, my left crankarm (non drive side) came off and was attached to my cleat. I had to pull over and have Josh help me pull it from my cleat. So we continued home and I was forced to do single-leg drills and struggle up some climbs. I made it home but could definitely feel my right hamstring get a good workout.
What ended up happening was the self-extracting lock bolt came off/broke causing the crank arm to come off of the bottom bracket. The only reason why I like my crank/bottom bracket system is because of the stronglite ceramic bottom bracket. It spins forever. And if it wasn't for this fact, I would have switched to the shimano crank/external bearing bottom bracket system that I prefer.
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