I'll be out of the league for quite a while unfortunately. I was already slipping behind considerably of course, but there is no way that I can do any rides for at least 2 months. When I will return to do rides, it'll be slow flat rides.
Reason: I managed to break my left femur in a slow crash on August 6th. I was enjoying a slow sunny ride in southern France, after having arrived there the day before. Coming to a crossroads in a village I turned left and hit a patch of road full of gravel. Front wheel slipped, I fell and immediately felt that something was very wrong. Luckily it was in the middle of a village so my screams for help where acted on immediately. A few people helped me directly, some were directing traffic around me (I was literally in the middle of the street and could not move), and somebody else called an ambulance.
After that it was 8 days in hospital with an operation, then a long day traveling home with an 2 1/2 hour ambulance ride to the airport, flight from Marseille to Schiphol and a short ambulance ride to our house. I'm happy to be home and amongst people with whom I can converse normally, instead of trying to in my limited French. Not happy to be mostly immobile though.
I'm hoping to be able to get out of bed by myself in a week or so and to be able to ride on the trainer in about 2 months.
Thanks for kind words all!
In two weeks (September 19th) I'll go the hospital to get some new x-ray photos and a check-up. Hopefully I'll get the green light then to start putting weight on my left leg and go ride on the trainer. At very low power and for 5 minutes at a time probably, but still.
I'm a lot more mobile than I was, which is nice. Being able to pick up the children from school is pretty nice, even if the normal 3 minute walk has been turned into a 10 minute stumble on crutches.
The last ride close date is looming large, I know we're not using the close dates currently but even so I would have thought we'd be using start dates not end dates for when new rides got added.Am I being particularly daft or are we missing threads/topics for the Iseran (South) and Bonneval climbs? I can’t see where to post my ride times in the forum? @Aleman
I've been around on Zwift but not ridden as much on BRVR. I did all those other rides some time ago when @Aleman added them to the league. Not seen him around much either - he hasn't been on the Zwift Splitter thread and not seen him riding so not sure what's happened to him. He did say he was having some problems - again, hope he's OK.So do I SmP, he's not been around much at all recently. But no one else has either, it's most odd.
Welcome back 👍Sorry guys, a complete lack of motivation for anything cycling has seen me neglect, the league as well as my bike. I've also been putting in a new driveway which has left me pretty knackered to not even want to crawl to my desk and see what you have been up to ... I've brought the ride list up to date, Watch out there are some stinkers in there
I've also brought the times up to date as well (Hopefully - If I've missed yours give me a prod)