How Numb Hands Nearly Ended My Cycling Lifestyle
I wasn’t careful with how I rode, and my body rebelled
9 min readNov 30, 2023
In the summer of 2022 my teenage son and I cycled from Brooklyn to Montreal.
It was a sort of a capstone project. For almost a decade, we’d been going on rides of increasingly epic lengths. When he was eight, we did a 14-mile trip; the next year, 28 miles. We kept…