Injury update.

just a quick update on how its going since sundays attempt at trying to mount a bollard at speed ... on my bike. Dont try it trust me.
monday was pretty painful and i spent most of it sitting around in the sling and just resting really. Then tuesday i gave the turbo a go in the morning and found that i could ride fine with it in the sling... also got the neighbours feeling sorry for me as the walked by! So tuesday i did 2 easy spinning sessions of 45mins each to get the legs going again after the weekend.

Wednesday there was quite a lot of improvement and a lot more movement in my arm. I did a 2hr turbo session.... extremely dull but betten than not training! I was able to hold the bars this time but could not pull ont hem when trying to do a short intense effort, so i did a few longer less intense intervals to get the HR up with a very optimistic eye still on the weekend races!!

Then today (thursday) has seen another large improvement and i can now pretty much straighten the arm, but it will not bend fully yet. I have been reading up on it on the interweb and i think from what it feels like to me, that the damage may be on the tendons behind the elbow... tricep tendons... as that is where it hurts when flexing/extending the arm, instead of the bad damage being the fracture which i think must be small seeing the progress i have made in the last few days alone.
So feeling better today i ventured out on the road, fully equipped with 3 mitts on my left hand compared to one on my right just for added padding to take out any impacts from the road. i can hold the bars normally and felt strong on the ride however i cant really get out the saddle and accelerate as that arm movement causes pain. Hopefully though this will improve by the weekend meaning i can at least take the start line for sundays elite classic, Circuit du Morbihan, but unfortunately i will be resting it the day before so missing out on another classic, Souvenir Louison Bobet.

I'm hoping that the improvements will continue each day as they have so by sunday ill be good to go.

I hate being injured. Luckily i haven't had any serious injuries since i started riding but i have come to realise that small injuries such as this one come with the sport and sadly they are bound to happen so better to get one out the way now then!

i'm going to put a post up soon about an article i read recently on Pez cycling about cycling ettiquete rules... a funny read but soo true!

watch this space..

JENS

pour les francais ... je essayerai à faire une traduction! Alors... tous que j'ai dit ci-dessus est à dire que après ma chute dimanche, je uis beaucoup mieux et l'entrainement est bien passé sur l'hometrainer mardi et mecredi (mais c'était vachement enneyeux!) et puis aujourd'hui (jeudi) j'ai fait un sorti de 2heures et demi sur la route et c'était pas trop douloureux! Le seul problème est que je peux pas tirer sur le guidon alors je peux pas faire des intesités hors de la selle où grimper vite hors selle... mais j'éspère que ca va ameliorer encore par le weekend quand je pense que je vais prendre le départ Dimanche au Circuit du Morbihan, mais malheuresement pas samedi au Louison Bobet.

A+, JENS