PezCycling News profiles Team Garmin-Slipstream’s Timmy Duggan and talks to him about the Tour de Georgia crash, his long history with Slipstream Sports, the Just Go Harder Foundation and his plans for the 2009 season.
Excerpts from the article:
“I had a subarachnoid hemorrhage resulting in a subdural hematoma – a big bruise on the right front lobe of my brain. I was in hospital for a week before they flew me back to Colorado. I broke my collar bone and shoulder too – but they were the least of my worries…”
“…One of the things I find in training is that I can dig myself into really deep holes; I can get very tired – more so than I used to before – and depressed and I’m working on how to overcome that. When it comes to brain injuries, doctors can’t tell you anything exact – everyone reacts differently…”
“…I start with the Tour Down Under – I’m pretty excited about that. It’ll be good to start racing, you get tired of training on your own all the time. Then it’ll be back to Europe and the Tours of the Med, Murcia maybe Pays Basque, leading into the Giro – which should have been my first Grand Tour, last year, until the crash. Because I’m coming back, the programme is relatively light, but if I’m adapting well then I may ride more races…”
