Injury

Bit early on in the year for this kind of post but sadly it’s true.

There I was idling my way through the middle of Richmond Park when I noticed the mudguard on my commuter bike was rubbing. Being a road racer crud contraption I thought just moving the toggle down the fork a bit would solve it. Something I’ve done many times before. So trivial in fact that I thought I would just do it as I was riding along….

So as you can probably work out the next thing that happened involved spokes and my arm. Indeed before I knew what was happening my arm had been sucked into the wheel (gloves probably caught a bit of the spike and the rest followed) and I had been thrown over the bars landing hard on my shoulder on the road. My head bit the deck quite hard too, luckily m helmet did a good job on that front.

So after stumbling up, pretending to be brave to a passer by by saying I was fine I looked over the damage The bike with the exception of one spoke was fine. Me however not quite as well off

I’ve lost a lot of skin from one of my fingers, managed to bit half of the inside of my cheek off, which irritatingly has now turned into a huge ulcer (pain horrific) and I have really hit my shoulder hard. I got back on the bike and did the rest of the 14 miles to work and I knew something was up, every bump or move and it felt like my shoulder was coming out of its socket and it was very painful.

This was Friday morning, I managed to struggle through a turbo session on Sunday, but decided yesterday that the hospital was a good idea. Hour or two and an x ray later and I did get some positive news in that there were no breaks. But I had damaged one of my ligaments so have to spend a few days in a sling before I go back.

It is all starting to feel a bit better but just pissed off with myself. Hopefully I can get back to racing soon but it certainly won’t be this weekend and I fear it may not be the one after either.

Lesson here is of course don’t be an idiot like I was and if you must adjust something near moving parts. Doing when so you’re stationary. Or get your teamcar to do it 😉

Onwards and upwards!