Today's Ride

[PhillB]

My old stomping ground.

It's the other side of London from me but my son had an all-day Basketball camp in Kidbrooke, we weren't allowed to watch, so the Breezer came too!

 

[CassidyAce]

A grey day and, at just 2°C or thereabouts, not exactly prime riding weather; however, it was the first time that I've been able to ride more than a couple of miles or so since July 8th, and that meant it was a good day to ride. I was conscious of some loss of fitness, and I definitely didn't want to undo my ankle's best efforts at recovery, so it was a cautious, getting-into-the-swing-of-it-again gravel ride for fifteen miles today. Until the last mile, when I thought, 'I've survived. Go for it!' and did.

 

[PercyInglesFlyingCircus]

Was a frosty bbbbrrrrrr one today was gonna go for a DH blast at the usual Wednesday flying circus training spot on train but went to pick up the beast and got roped into work related ninjary and missed the train, but some young guy rang in yesterday and wanted to have a propa look round and out back of warehouse so duties got in the way

anyway ended up getting some afternoon local exploring and techy river side bashing then had a good over the bars later on after finding some new unexpected wooded bits, then after reaching the top and coming back down into a scrub lost the front end into some brambles and got launched into some further brambles, managed a nice attempt at a tuck over the shoulder to upsided turtle position but shoulder took full blast to frozen ground which I also had forgotten about, luckily no harm done just a bit sore ahaha it’s always the outta the blue ones could easily been a collar bone and a painful hike and coast to ane

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Was a frosty bbbbrrrrrr one today was gonna go for a DH blast at the usual Wednesday flying circus training spot on train but went to pick up the beast and got roped into work related ninjary and missed the train, but some young guy rang in yesterday and wanted to have a propa look round and out back of warehouse so duties got in the way

anyway ended up getting some afternoon local exploring and techy river side bashing then had a good over the bars later on after finding some new unexpected wooded bits, then after reaching the top and coming back down into a scrub lost the front end into some brambles and got launched into some further brambles, managed a nice attempt at a tuck over the shoulder to upsided turtle position but shoulder took full blast to frozen ground which I also had forgotten about, luckily no harm done just a bit sore ahaha it’s always the outta the blue ones could easily been a collar bone and a painful hike and coast to ane

Last pic shows it could have been worse, take it easy ya loon

 

[PercyInglesFlyingCircus]

Last pic shows it could have been worse, take it easy ya loon

I had definitely got overconfident and complacent after doing my best Chris askrig impressions up the river and winning, I did have a thought as I was pushing up the previously unexplored woods hhhmmm bit icey bit slippy … might be some tumbles today …. I think a dropper post might cure these odd incidents I have on this bike as my subconscious isn’t fast enough to get my bum over and down to the back wheel when a sudden out of the blue occurs and it’s all to fast to react… or maybe I am just getting old ahaha tbh it wasn’t really that steep at all but a bit steeper than pics always seem …… though it’s always the outta the blue ones that if tho go really wrong it’s sometimes a random hospital visit.. this is why I am more scarred of getting in the shower without thinking it through properly as put my back out doing that early in the year pfffttt … luckily this time nothing a hot shower won’t sort out : )

 

[2manyoranges]

Today‘s Ride (the commute on Monday) was VERY painful.

Drizzle. Cold. But an excellent 17km. Really enjoying it. No ice. No frost. Wet but grippy. RoadRat on G-Ones.
Last 1km….need to thread through a set of gates…high speed approach as usual and just made a minor error.
Bar clipped post. B A N G…..hard down onto left hand side.
Fell onto hip extremely hard. Granite setts mainly. Pointy and hard.
Helmet worked.
Backpack really stopped any back injury.

For first few hours I really worried that I had broken my hip. As a colleague had done 18 months ago.
Checked mobility in hip all day - fine no clicking but boy was it swelling.
By evening - huge 2cm swollen zone over all femoral head area.
So…..called partner who took me home at 7pm by car.

I used the new protocol:
No NSAIDs - to speed repair, no Ibuprofen or similar.
No ice for first 48 hours.
Elevate.

All evening on sofa - VERY painful going upstairs.
OK night. Slept on RH side to drain effusion on hip.
Day 1 just worse and worse. Poor mobility, increased swelling, increasing pain. No bruise, just swelling. Painful going up stairs.
Day 2 much improved. Swelling reducing. Now pretty sure that I have a bone bruise and no break. Huge red and blue bruise appears. Very difficult going up stairs.
Day 3 almost pain free, mobility back bruise impressive. Could ride now but will leave it another 24 hours.

Very speedy recovery from A Big One. New protocol very interesting.

 

[2manyoranges]

Anyone interested in the ’no ICE‘ ‘no NSAIDs’ can read this:

No ICE

https://www.grandslamphysio.com.au/...ited research,impacting on long term healing.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8173427/
https://advance.muschealth.org/library/2022/september/ice-on-acute-injuries
No NSAIDs

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5330483/
https://physicaltherapyweb.com/para...-tissue-injuries-part-2-of-2/#google_vignette

 

[dorset boy]

Fluffy snow falling when i went out but within ten minutes it was gone Just became a cold wet day.

 

[dorset boy]

Just looked up TUBEWRIGHTS LTD LIVERPOOL seems they were in business from 1899 to 1981.

 

[PercyInglesFlyingCircus]

Took the “retro” bike for a frosty spin, the headset grease even felt gunky and thick because of the cold