So today I am posting with one arm. You may be thinking thats kind of weird, but due to the circumstances it will have to work. Other than a bike race a visit to the ER and trying to do everthing with one arm June has been uneventful.
So lets get started with the biggest news. Michelle, myself, and Peanut headed up to Tulsa on Friday the 10th of this month for the Tulsa Tough bike race. My race started at 8:30 that night. The night started out pretty good I was feeling pretty good in the pack and was able to move around whenever I needed to. My goal was to sit in until we got close to the end of the race and try a move then. Well with 5 laps to go the opportunity presented itself and I attacked with Ben from BOT to bridge up to 2 guys up the road. We stayed between the groups for 2 laps then it was groupo compacto. With 3 laps to go I started to try and position Nick and myself for the sprint, but the weather started to change. It started to sprinkle and the course began to get slick causing a pretty good pile up with 2 laps to go. I then decided since I wouldn't be there for the sprint anyways I would just take it easy and finish. With 1 lap to go the conditions got worse and the 30 guys or so in front of me started crashing left and right, so again I slowed my speed to stay safe and live to race another day. Well that was about the same time everthing went south I rounded an uphill corner and before I knew it my front wheel was sliding out. and I didn't have a chance of saving it. I struke the ground with my left shoulder taking the blow. As soon as I stood up I new what the damage was a broken colar bone.
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| Obviously this didn't work. |
I made my way to the medical tent and received some information on how to get to a hospital. Michelle rushed me to the ER and they confirmed the bad news. I had broken it diagonally from the top outside to the lower inside of the bone. Therefore I am stuck in this sling for 2 to 4 more weeks.
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| Failure of the Power Balance led to this |
The major pain from the break and crash are over and I am just stuck with the arm being imobilized for a while. I start to hurt around 3 in the afternoon, but manage to make it the last few hours of the day. I am allowed back on the trainer and as much as I hate that contraption it is all I have at the moment. Michelle has been taking great care of me and putting up with my complaining better than I can.
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| Which leads to trainer time |
The crash kind of threw a curveball in to the rest of the plans we had for this month, but we are enjoying the time at home. Mitch and Sarah are coming in town tomorrow an dwe are excited to see them. Michelle and Sarah are going to go shopping while Mitch and I go eat at the heart attack grill in downtown. Then we are all going to meet up to enjoy a Texas Rangers game that afternoon. They are headed home on Sunday and we will be headed up that way at the end of the month. Michelle is going to visit her family for the weekind of the 4th and I am headed to Colorado for the week.
Until the next post I will leave you with some pictures, most of them are of Peanut because I take her swimming at lunch everyday. Have a good day and thanks for reading. Also one more big thanks to my wife for taking care of me.
