Why

More to the point, we (John, Bill, and I) had a longer trip planned through the Canadian Rockies down through Glacier National Park to Missoula, but my knee issues have worsened. I came very close to having an operation to clean it out. The doc, however, said that I should delay as long as possible (and push it!), given the previous four operations and the looming total knee replacement some time in the next decade.

So I did push it, putting in more than 570 training miles in during the month of May, my highest non-tour total ever, and almost 750 in the last six weeks. While I got the miles in, most of those were <25-mile rides, w/ only three more than 40.

So, we'll see.