Category Archives: injury

Hit the North - Fail

July 22, 2010 – 10:35 pm

Lashing it down.
It seemed apt for the forth & final (or not!) installment of the Hit the North race saga.
Although a bit apprehensive about how my body would react to 8 straight hours of CX bike action, the preceding weeks’ deluge and gloopy looking course made me feel a bit better about the decision.
Viewing [...]

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That knee’s a bugger

November 21, 2009 – 10:28 pm

I’ve been riding singlespeed almost exclusively this year. But today, reluctantly dug out the geared bike as a dodgy tendon in the back of my knee that has been bugging me since the last Brownbacks race (4 weeks ago) seems to be getting worse with each ride. The injury is not exactly painful, but more [...]

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Mountain Mayhem 2009 (well that came around quick)

June 17, 2009 – 9:42 pm

Just 2 days to go until Mountain Mayhem (and the weather forecast is dry(!?) mmm… we’ll see…). Took the ‘race’ bike (geared Voodoo) out last night, as its not been used since Enduro 6 and had vague memories of it sounding quite unhealthy during the race. Confirmed at the top of the first climb to [...]

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Cold pain

December 7, 2008 – 10:11 pm

Short-ish icy ride on the iO - highlight of which was ‘crashing’ on black ice whilst climbing slowly and what I thought to be cautiously on a road section.  I lay in the road for a few seconds trying to work out if everything was intact as I came down hard considering I was [...]

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What did i do that summer (2008)

November 25, 2008 – 9:48 pm

The winter has knocked on the door, let itself in, poured a cup of tea and generally made itself at home so here’s a quick (think Haiku) and long over due update of my ’summer’* 2008:
The elbow healed.
Enduro 6 was dry
Sleepless was wet
Mountain Mayhem was wetter
Hit The North was wet
TransWales was very [...]

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Elbow update

March 10, 2008 – 7:47 pm

13 days post crash and I’m still in a sling. Although the effect of my bruised ribs has been more uncomfortable than the actual elbow fracture (I fractured the ‘radial head’ by the way). The ribs had me really worried as it really effected my breathing on my right side, this was confirmed by [...]

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break !

February 27, 2008 – 11:10 am

Doing a regular loop around Chinley Churn last night. Pulled my front wheel up at a stream at the bottom of a descent and the next thing I knew I was lying in the sand (its like a beach up there!) nursing my chest that had just slammed into an embedded rock, and couldn’t I [...]

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