Recovery? It varies from person to person, from injury to injury. For me these two weeks have felt like a lifetime. It's almost difficult to comprehend how hard it is to hurt yourself and then travel away to an event thats all about the activity that you love most, the activity which resulted in you injuring yourself. I find it hard to put this puzzle together. The puzzle of why this happened at this time and I find it so frustrating because I'm so confused. My recovery though is going strong, I'm spending more time out of my sling when I'm at home, but it feels so weird. My tricep keeps twitching when my arm is free and it's almost so constant that I have to put the sling back on. Pain is temporary, but quitting will last a lifetime.
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| Checking out the scenery |
I'm finding it hard to talk about anything interesting in these blogs because every day is almost identical to the last.
The little blue Hyundai Getz made it's biggest journey today out to the feed zone before crossing back, racing the riders by car to get to the finish line. Once I was at the finish line I was seated in the grass area watching the race on the big screen TV. I thought to myself while I was there that I wasn't going to film the finish today, nothing exciting will happen and plus I can sit here and watch the whole thing without having to fight people for a position, risking that my shoulder will get bumped or knocked. In that same thought I realised that there hadn't been any crashes yet and how good that was for the riders. It wasn't until about 150 metres to go that everything went to chaos and riders went everywhere. Yep that's right, I spoke way too soon. I felt a weird sensation go throughout my body because what if, maybe I jinxed the whole thing?
After watching chaos unfold we got into the car and began the 40min journey home. Upon arriving back into Adelaide I saw a car which had sign writing on the side which had the words 'Thanyapura' a sports resort that's in Phuket which is run by world champion triathlete Chris 'Macca' McCormack. Within about 30 seconds we were passing the great man himself as he rode back into the city. I was able to get a quick video of him and we went passed in the car.
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| Driving alongside Chris McCormack |
Just like yesterday we ended up back at the tour village. But today was different. Everyone was talking about the crash and everyone was trying to get a glimpse of the broken bikes. Something that I was a little bit fascinated about was with everyone taking photos and then posting them online, is it good or bad publicity for the manufacturers. I bet they don't want people seeing their brand of bike posted all over the internet when it's in a million pieces. Anyway a rider from Lotto went down so it was a bit sad for the team but I did manage to take some photos and sorry to the owners of these company's but I wouldn't expect a bike to stay together if it hit the ground at 75km/h with a number of other riders. So here are my pictures of the Ridley Noah SL ridden by Kenny Dehaes.
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| Cracked Ridley Frame |
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| The handle bars are bent and totally ruined |
Tomorrow is the key day for general classification riders so it will interesting to see what happens when they contest Old Willunga Hill two times around. Stay tuned for brand new day with a brand new blog.
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