I remember a few years ago watching the Tour de Lance as Lance Armstrong raced. There was one stage where, at the end, Lance said he had felt like something was wrong: he was less energetic, and it just felt like he was lagging, not quite all “there”, etc. The culprit? Turns out his brake was locked down and he had been biking against it the whole time.
Well, the same thing happened to me yesterday. I biked in, and I was thinking, “Man, I feel so sluggish. It’s like I’ve got no energy today.” When I got to work I discovered the spring on my brake had slipped off the little tab thingy (that’s the technical term, of course) and as a result my front brake had been slightly engaged the entire trip in. The funny thing is that it didn’t feel like it; it felt like I was more sluggish, not like I was biking through added resistence.
Oh well. At least now I share something with Lance… :-P
