Able was I, ere I'd sore elbow#

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 13:00:00 +0000

Additionally other sore elbow, and sore knees, and a shoulder that's slightly painful when arm raised above head height, and a sore back.

First elbow and shoulder was from Tatem, as mentioned previously. Other elbow and both knees acquired road rash from meeting diesel while attempting a rather tight snowplough stop on a downhill during the LFNS the other day. The remainder is just general muscle soreness after the Goodwood Roller Marathon - at least some of which is probably from doing Goodwood while still aching from Tatem, at least some of which is from doing Tatem before recovering from all that Brox pedalling last weekend. It's a bugger on the uphills, especially when it slips gears (it should have a SRAM 1:1 derailleur, but nobody seems to have them - so with its present cheap Shimano the gear indexing is basically way off). Anyway, it's basically (long past) time I took a few days off and let all this stuff grow back, whch is what I'm doing now and I hope to be well rested for the LIM this weekend. I should buy shares in Johnson & Johnson, the amount of Compeed I'm getting through.

I've entered (at least, I think I've entered - I've not had an email confirmation yet) the St Gallen 111, two weeks after the LIM. Which means I will probably not be going Wedel, as that's on the weekend between them.

Oh, if you're in (or can get to London) there's champagne on offer in our competition to name the bike (you have to get here to pick it up, cos we're not delivering). It's all a cunning ploy to get people to sign up to our mailing list, really.