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Man goes BAM
Mar. 6th, 2007 06:36 amWe went to the Greenville (SC) training races over the weekend. Both races were on the same course, a rolling 7 mile loop. Saturday was super-windy, okay, and because the course was a loop, that meant riding into the wind about 3/4 of the time. (I don't know why headwinds come from everywhere but tailwinds come from exactly one point on the compass, okay, but they DO.)
I can summarize my race this way: It was an open women's race with some heavy hitters, and I fell off the back of the pack, formed a chase group with some other people, and finished the race that way. The wind made it pretty hard.
R's race started two hours later, so I hung out waiting for him... was chatting with some teammates... when the leaders in his race finished. Okay, no big deal. Then the chase group finished, no R. Hmm. Then his teammate runs up to me requesting the truck keys so R can get back in his truck. Huh?
Go back to the truck and find... one R, limping and moving slowly. He's crashed, and the wheel truck brought him back. Yikes! Okay... this looks bad... don't panic... examine the evidence. He has a bad story of a slow-motion fall when someone cut him off and he went over his handlebars. Both wheels are busted. He doesn't have a lot of road rash, his clothes aren't ripped up, but he's complaining that shoulder, hip, and elbow hurt where he fell on his side. (He's also complaining that he's hungry, and worst, the damn fall happened in the last two miles of a fifty-mile race.)
Okaaaay..... conclusion: He fell straight and hard, right on bony structures, and didn't diminish the force of impact by falling at an angle or skidding. So. (1) check for broken bones (none that I could find, yay). (2) From the story, no ligaments or tendons are clearly torn. But (3) he's limping bad but not immediately bruising around that hip. So, he likely fell on the bursa and his body will respond by amping up the inflammation in response, meaning he will wake up tomorrow REALLY stiff.
Treatment plan: Administer orange soda, which makes everything better. Fire up the Nurse Ratched routine and administer advil every four hours, along with ice packs on any body part he fell on. Over his objections, I might add. Oh yeah, administer ice cream to the inside, later. That always helps with inflammation. ;-) I would add beer, but beer and advil just don't mix well.
I can summarize my race this way: It was an open women's race with some heavy hitters, and I fell off the back of the pack, formed a chase group with some other people, and finished the race that way. The wind made it pretty hard.
R's race started two hours later, so I hung out waiting for him... was chatting with some teammates... when the leaders in his race finished. Okay, no big deal. Then the chase group finished, no R. Hmm. Then his teammate runs up to me requesting the truck keys so R can get back in his truck. Huh?
Go back to the truck and find... one R, limping and moving slowly. He's crashed, and the wheel truck brought him back. Yikes! Okay... this looks bad... don't panic... examine the evidence. He has a bad story of a slow-motion fall when someone cut him off and he went over his handlebars. Both wheels are busted. He doesn't have a lot of road rash, his clothes aren't ripped up, but he's complaining that shoulder, hip, and elbow hurt where he fell on his side. (He's also complaining that he's hungry, and worst, the damn fall happened in the last two miles of a fifty-mile race.)
Okaaaay..... conclusion: He fell straight and hard, right on bony structures, and didn't diminish the force of impact by falling at an angle or skidding. So. (1) check for broken bones (none that I could find, yay). (2) From the story, no ligaments or tendons are clearly torn. But (3) he's limping bad but not immediately bruising around that hip. So, he likely fell on the bursa and his body will respond by amping up the inflammation in response, meaning he will wake up tomorrow REALLY stiff.
Treatment plan: Administer orange soda, which makes everything better. Fire up the Nurse Ratched routine and administer advil every four hours, along with ice packs on any body part he fell on. Over his objections, I might add. Oh yeah, administer ice cream to the inside, later. That always helps with inflammation. ;-) I would add beer, but beer and advil just don't mix well.
