If you're ever in the Colorado Springs area and need a root canal, please be sure to see the wonderful folks at Endodontics Specialists. They were able to figure out what was going on with another tooth (a molar that I had cracked about a week ago) and got me in later in yesterday afternoon to do the procedure. Everything went fine (although this one hurts the worst of all three). I'm very sore today but in a bit I go back to my regular dentist so that she can take a look at some soft tissue that needed to be cut away along the gum line so she could grind some of the jaw bone down and see how that's all healing up.

Big thanks to Paul up at Team Telecycle for getting my Reba rebuilt last week. I haven't ridden it but it looks like it cycles through the travel smoothly.

I am really on the fence about what to do. If the race was tomorrow or even in three days I would not be going. I don't know that I can do this as quickly as I'd like to this year but I think that's ok too. The primary concern for me all year long was whether or not I could actually make it all the way. There are so many thoughts racing through my head right now. The mechanical the first year. My lack of mental toughness last year. This year it's been really close to being out of my control again and that has made me really mad about quitting last year.