PB 2.0
So, lets try this one more time...seven years later! A little background on who I am My name is Michael Watkins and I'm a cyclist...check that...I'm a cycling para-athlete, a para cyclist. It has taken me a long, long time to come to grips with that reality, but that is what I am. I have ridden and raced bicycles for over 40 years. You can say it's kinda my thing, it is what I love to do and it often defines who I am, where I go on vacation, who I hang out with and what I watch on TV. We are a very small portion of society, cyclist, there are tons of people who ride bikes, but not all of them are cyclists. Of that small piece of society a smaller sliver of that piece is where I fit into the picture, a para cyclist. I have a disease called Charcot Marie Tooth Disease (CMT), a hereditary peripheral neuropathy, which in laymen's terms is a hereditary nerve disease in my arms, hands, legs and feet. When you have CMT, your nerves lose almost all of their ability to transm...