I Stopped Riding For 8 Years

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]And while I was recovering from that, I got a job at Amazon in Seattle and that was it. The Amazon job took 100% of my focus. My identity was still linked to I'm an athlete, I'm a cyclist, but I was just working like 100% at Amazon.

[00:00:15]>> I imagine when you have a bike accident like that, you might be a little mad at biking. It wasn't uh mad at it, but there was some fear around it. Like >> If it had happened in a race or on like a particularly steep downhill, then I could kind of make some logic out of it.

[00:00:34]But this happened on a road that I would ride on every day.

[00:00:38]>> Just all of a sudden this dog hit me, that dog I knew.

[00:00:41]And it really did create some fear like Anything could happen.

[00:00:44]>> a bike, I want to go bike riding, but I could fall down and get hurt seriously.

[00:00:49]Also, the injuries were healing to the point like I could walk around Seattle and stuff and I was walking just fine, but the doctor I had there was like you should not be a cyclist. Like you can't fall on your hip again. I didn't cycle for 8 years after that accident. I imagine.

[00:01:02]>> And it was mostly career-related. I wanted to, but it was I was busy working.

[00:01:06]>> at working, yeah. Yeah.