Training Tri/Wrist

[legalmoose]

The training tri yesterday morning with the club went really well. The swim came off without a hitch, the bike went very smoothly, and the run, with two walking breaks, was nice and steady. Transitions needed some help, and I learned several lessons from this event that I'll apply to my next race, which hopefully will still be the Charlottesville one next Sunday the 19th.

Unfortunately, while biking home some nimrod decided not to look where he was going and pop out in front of me on his bike after coming around a blind curve and trying to pass two other cyclists. So I'm biking along, there are two bikes to my left and suddenly this twit appears right in front of me and instead of heading back into his lane, continues to cut across my front and to my right. I brake to keep from hitting any of the three and do a plant over the front of the bike.

Unlike the last time I fell because of someone's else's stupidity, this time I did take the time to (verbally) ream the other cyclist a new asshole. There's no excuse for not looking where the hell you're going while out on a crowded path.

Anyway, the injury list this time is a lovely bit of road rash right above the goatee line on my right chin, a very small bruise under my eye where the glasses hit my face, some soreness in my left index finger (feels like the tendon/ligament got pulled some in the landing), and a very sore right wrist (sore because it absorbed most of he impact from the fall). I've been icing the wrist, and keeping it in a bandage to keep it as immobile as possible, and will likely go in to see my doctor Monday morning to go see about having it X-rayed just in case (though the only treatment is to put it in a stronger brace than it's in now). It hurts to lift anything with the wrist, but there's no bruising as you'd typically find with a broken bone, so is hopefully just some soft tissue trauma that'll heal with some immobilization and lots of rest.

I'll have to make the call by Thursday about the Sunday race so I can cancel the hotel reservation and let the new triathlete program folks know if I'm headed down or not. I'm just furious right now that months of training might be thrown out the window because of one moron who wasn't watching what the hell he was doing.

Comments

[ironmanjt.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the frustration. No matter how much YOU are ready for any race, the world can still conspire against you.

Me. Strep throat. IMC 2000. Remember? :(

[legalmoose]

Ah yes, I do remember that. The wrist is feeling better, and the left hand seems to be almost back to normal, so I'm hopeful that, with care, Sunday is still possible.

[ironmanjt.livejournal.com]

I believe it is :) Just remember the words of yoda. :)

[jss]

Wouldn't that be rather defeatist, though? Didn't Yoda say, "There is no Tri"?

[legalmoose]

Existentialist triathlons...

[jss]

Ouch! Hope you can still do the Tri.

Next time, call a cop and have the putz arrested for assault.

[bonoboboy.livejournal.com]

Did he at least apologize afterwards?

::kisses to make it better::

Luckily, I can't actually call you a clutz or some other term for people who often fall when out on the trails, especially since this time it wasn't your fault!

I can't wait to hit the trails with you, though!

::snugz::

[eyow.livejournal.com]

Be careful on the wrist - when I broke mine (the accident back in '90), they'd x-rayed it and didn't see anything immediately, and there wasn't bruising or anything. It just ached if I used it too much, so the prescription was "don't use it too much." Fair enough. But when 9 months passed and it still ached? I got some more specialized tests done, and some x-rays at different angles (because the standard shots they'd done at first hadn't detected anything), and it turns out that I had broken one of the bones. The surgeon I ended up at was an orthopedic surgeon specializing in arms and hands, and in 15 years he'd only seen one other break like mine (and oddly enough, that other case showed up at his office about a week after my diagnosis, heh).

[legalmoose]

Yeah, I already went through that with my ankle, so I'm much more proactive about "nope, this isn't working, I need to know what's going on and NOW" about stuff (witness the multiple tests I've done for the eye thing, which is still unresolved until I can do the follow up with ye olde neurologist on the 27th...).

[unbleachedbrun.livejournal.com]

I think you should sue.