Yesterday I had a wee miss hap, our bikes needed new brake pads so a straight forward pad change was needed it all went sweet until, my bike was rubbing so while we wheel was spinning quite quick I went in to make an adjustment and as I grabbed the calliper my right braking finger went into the disk. It all happened so fast I knew what I had done but was in a wee bit of shock looking down I thought my finger was a goner, but lucky for me it was still there just cut a long way through. After getting back in the house and a good 20 mins of hanging in a sink feeling very grogy and all faint 5 minutes of that I was out of it and could see any think or hear much (I’m a real pussy with blood and pain),we started trying to think about what to do next it defiantly needed medical attention so we searched out the hospital and boosted there.
They couldn’t do a whole lot but clean it out and F#$% me they cleaned it out alright, it couldn’t be stitched because of the nail so they just strapped it back with a whole lot of bandages and sent me on my way with instructions on where to go in the morning for its bandage change and check up. So today after struggling to find where I had to go, I found a doctor behind a big steel door in a packed out patients hospital (thanks to Katie’s persistence that surely even though no one spoke English she would find someone to look at the finger) . I was fully shitting myself but it was clean and the doctor spoke English, when they took the bandages off it was manky as, they cleaned it as much as they could bandaged it and gave me orders don’t move it, don’t get it wet, ice it, go to the hospital in the weekend to get it checked and bandages changed, and come see me Monday...
So yea here I am just chilling it’s not really buggering me up to much for training because the tour de france is motivating me so much I just go riding. It’s not ideal and I defiantly can’t use my hand at all. I missed a really important double session of training yesterday, I tried to do it after the tour but it started to rain and one handed arm under my arm pit intervals don’t really cut it so I came home and wrote the day off.
Today however the rain stayed away and the tour motivated me again, and I got a easy ride in on the roads still riding with my hand up under my arm pit but riding. I’ll be on the roads for a week I would say.
We have one week left in Karlovy Vary until we move across Czech to a UCI cat 1 race in Ostrava I’m looking forward to it as I was feeling super fast at the start of the week then a bit tired from training later in the week but defiantly feeling the best I have ever felt and I will be trying my best not to let this one get in the way of any think.
Carl
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