Quick update. Christmas and New Year didn’t go to plan.
I fell off my bike during the last week of uni before Christmas and ended up dislocating my wrist.
It was the night of the Xfactor final and I had just finished one of my pieces of coursework and was feeling good about going home for christmas, so I decided to pop out and get a quick ride in before the light went. On the way back riding through Bath, I went round a tight right hand corner and the whole bike slid out from underneath me. As I was going quite slow, I stupidly placed my arm out to cushion my fall. As soon as I had done this, I knew I had hurt my wrist but did not know to what extent; I managed to ride the rest of the way home one handed. At home, I realised it was more serious that I thought and I would have to take a trip up to the hospital; which my girlfriend, Kim, did not approve of as she is a huge Xfactor fan.
After three hours in hospital, they had diagnosed my injury as a dislocated wrist with the ulna and radius coming apart resulting in the crucial ligaments that hold my wrist joint together being torn. I was put in plaster from the wrist to shoulder. I will be in the cast for 6 weeks, hoping that the ligaments will reattach without having to have an operation.
Training has been pretty much non existent, and the worst factor is that I will not be able to attend the Lanzarote training camp at the end of January.
The only thing I can do now is to try and maintain some aerobic fitness by working hard on the turbo and cross trainer, and to focus on rehabilitation of the wrist. Still hoping to be fit to race in June, but we’ll just have to wait and see.
