Well, I may be done peaking for the crit…
Last night’s time trial went very well - 16MPH headwind for the second half of the time trial, and I was still only 22 seconds slower than my PR for the course!
Once a week as part of my training, I head over to a local parking lot to do handling drills on the bike - typically practicing time trial turnaround + working on cornering sharper turns and at faster speeds. Headed out this morning still feeling pretty beaten up from the time trial. With only about 5 minutes left in this week’s handling drills, I wiped out at about 17-18 MPH. I didn’t hit my head, but did scrape up my elbow (not big deal), and tore open my hip pretty badly. A few other scrapes and bruises as well, and my shoulder’s pretty knotted up. I sat down for about 10 minutes to let nausea and light-headedness pass, then biked home, scrubbed out the road rash on my hip, and headed to Convenient Care. The doctor said my hip was about a nanometer away from needing stiches, and the sizable hematoma on my hip may need to be surgically drained - we’ll know about that next week.
Now for the exciting contest portion of this blog posting - what should I name my hematoma?
