Just got back from a training ride, not a bad ride, took it pretty steady as was on my own. Here’s the thing, obviously I absolutely love being on my bike and I love everything that goes with being a cyclist and what it adds to my life. The problem is that one of my trainig buddies is currently lying on his back having come off his bike on Thursday night when he hit ice and has broken his hip. Apparently he was very lucky to keep the hip and now has 1 plate and 2 pins inserted in him and the realisation that he won’t be on a bike for at least 18 weeks.
What is it with us cyclists that makes us want to go out when we shouldn’t, take that corner at a speed we know is dangerous or go for a gap between traffic that under normal circumstances we would never dream of? It’s such an odd concept and one that I cannot quite fathom. I have put myself in some pretty dangerous situations on a bike and the first thing that comes into my mind when I have beaten the odds is my 2 year old daughter and wife. What would they do if I suffered the ultimate injury? I came off my Mountain bike a few years ago and broke my collarbone very badly, I was basically trying to ‘keep up with the bigger boys’ and was slightly encouraged to do something that I was in no way capable of doing. Suffice to say two operations and a month off later I was on the mend but my shoulder has never been the same since. It’s not even as if I am a Pro doing this for a living.
I know damn well that I will continue to cycle for years to come and will most likely suffer some kind of injury along the way, slightly massochistic?
Get well Neil.
