[Closed] so...who's injured...?

Was off work last week, planning a 200 mile week in the sunshine.

Pedestrian stepped into the road without looking on the first ride - my bike and I went sliding down the tarmac. Skin lost at various points from shoulder to knee, but mainly my elbow. Colossal bruising on my hip and thigh. Some sort of groin strain that got worse after a gentle pootle with the kids on Sunday and made me go back to be checked for a possible missed fracture, though they don't think there is one.

So I'm reduced to resting and very gentle walks. Supposed to be test riding a new bike on Monday 🙄

Compounded by losing all last summer after an off road crash, then sciatica since Christmas that was just finally easing last month

Thoroughly pissed off. And waiting for the bill to sort out the bike as we landed gears side down

Yeah a bit.... dead leg, sore neck, scrapes, cuts and bruises.... Nothing major, but mildly annoying.

I was just riding along the day before lockdown, clipped a tree with the bars.
Concussion, collarbone, 9 cracks in the ribs, dislocated thumb.
All I can do is walk slowly.Collarbone hasnt healed yet , it's 10 weeks now
Very hard NOT to use my right arm for anything, I automatically try to use it for everything, slapping mosquitoes,grabbing branches to hold onto,and it keeps jarring the bones
I have a lot of sympathy for left handed folk now I know its almost impossible to brush your teeth, or wash your left armpit

Yep - not for cycling, but running.

Went on a run just over a week ago after a massive plate of lasagne, salad, garlic bread & coffee; although I don't think that caused the injury.
But, I felt awful the whole way round, should have given up & gone home but didn't. Then from about 6km started to get a niggle in my right IT band.

I've had trouble for years & years with my left IT band which I only sorted out about 2 years ago, but have never had any bother with my right hand side...

I jogged round the block on Sunday with my daughter while she was on her pedal bike & even at that slow pace my IT band was still very sore. Which is a bit shit.

had a 38lbs DH bike land on my left calf on saturday, feels like I've been shot in the leg when I get out of bed, but after a few stretches its ok. more uplifts on thursday though:)  heal up all!

oof....

it makes you realise how good the body is when you're NOT hurt...

after an injury breaks, I always appreciate how good and pain free my body can be!

DrP

I really appreciate the injury free time. Seem to have spent the year "three months injured, three months not", so just get back to decent ride fitness before something else happens.

Still, weather set to turn tomorrow, so I predict a sudden miraculous healing and rain!

Yeah, ****ing Gout.

Don't get old, it's shit.

Yeah, came off last weekend whilst messing around in the local woods with my kids. Weeks worth of concussion and broken right collarbone. As with alric above its incredibly hard to stop myself using my dominant arm. It's driving me nuts!

Did my left ankle tripping over my own feet (twice!) walking the dog near the top of Black Hill in the Pentlands a couple of weeks back. It's been fine for cycling and for walking but feels like it might be about couple of weeks before I'll be running again.

As I get older (I'm early 50's) it is noticeable how much longer injuries like this linger for.

Had a groin / hip flexor issue for six weeks - the only place I can't feel it is on the bike! So cycling OK, just some aggravation everwhere else.

Anyone know what the state of play is / will be with physios? Tough to work a physio consultation over zoom - need to get the fingers probing.

I'm really missing deep tissue massages.... seen to keep things in check when I have them..

DrP

I went for a run on Saturday, had breakfast, decided to do the washing, bent down to put it in the machine and cricked my back. Been in bed on cocktail of naproxen and diazepam ever since. Thoroughly hacked off as my mates continue to ride!

Back in a week though I reckon!

Dogsby

I've had a shagged shoulder (medical term) since end of March. Was really ****ing painful, now just painful. Meant I [i]can[/i] do short rides, but haven't been able to do any other exercise so it's bloody miserable sitting around getting fat and unfit.
Mine was also a stupid crash - was too windy to go for our ride, so we went to muck about on the jumps. Jumping? In the wind? Never before have I had my wheels blown out from under me like that. What a ****tish way to injure yourself!

Sliced a chunk of skin off the top of my thumb whilst cooking on sunday night - healing nicely, not too sore but concerned about knocking the scab off.

Been off the bike for 3 weeks since crashing into a gorse bush and breaking my fall using my rib cage.
I now fear sneezing like never before. I did manage a 9 mile road bike ride on the flat 2 days ago but it was v hard work. A few more weeks until I can go off road I think.

Foot seems to be defective after a stone wall collapsed onto it. Dangerous sport gardening!

I squirted Otex (for ears) into my eye instead of Opatanol yesterday. I am an idiot. Yes it really stung.

Another dodgy calf here. Took a week for the bruise to come out and I'm still hobbling about like I'm wearing high heels.

I went for a run on Saturday, had breakfast, decided to do the washing, bent down to put it in the machine and cricked my back. Been in bed on cocktail of naproxen and diazepam ever since. Thoroughly hacked off as my mates continue to ride!

Get out of bed!! I've had enough spasms to know that gentle movement heals all (in time).

I'm coming out of a long spell off injured, can only offer commiserations and a reminder that if you're sensible you'll come out the other side stronger (eventually) and wiser (which I think is why my riding buddy is now riding stuff that I'm bottling, when it used to be the other way around!).

“three months injured, three months not”

6 and 6 seems to be my cycle! Doing a lot more core work, glute work and being a lot more sensible about volume and intensity of riding (plus frequency, little and often). Hoping I might manage a decent run this time, big trip to the Pyrenees 2021!

Doing a lot more core work, glute work and being a lot more sensible about volume and intensity of riding

This was my approach through lockdown, was feeling stronger, less stiff, had lost weight - then some **** steps off the pavement without looking.

Good news - LBS have told me the bike is fixed
Bad news - being a bit vague over cost 😱

Me!

Broke a few toes (inc big one) week of lockdown starting - finally healed and binned it on the gravel bike on second ride out post recovery.....

Cue copious gravel rash, Bashed shoulder and a couple of broken ribs. 4 weeks and counting.

I’m more upset that I cracked my favourite lid, ripped the bar tape and scratched up a nearly (sub 10 rides) GRX shifter.....

2020 can do one!

7 months post shoulder reconstruction and a regime of daily physio stretches and exercises. getting there, slowly, and back on regular gravel and road rides.

Haven't ridden a MTB again yet,....but... picking up a new turbo Levo SL on Thursday 🙂 gentle pootles from home for a few months at least..

Yep, me!

In a stupid, minor over the bars ten weeks ago (first week of lockdown), I ended up free-falling 6ft into a ditch and landing on my head. net result was 4 broken vertebra (4, 6, 8 and 11), five days in hospital and then home convalescing.

It was a full rescue operation - 3 ambulances and the local Hazardous Area rescue Team to get me out of the woods - I wasn't doing anything extreme and nor was I in a particularly extreme location, it was just very difficult ground to move a 13 stone dead weight through felled trees and singletrack to an ambulance - I am forever grateful for the help and treatment I've had!

I haven’t had a back brace – mainly because they didn’t have one to fit and they wanted me out of the hospital quickly due to Covid-19. No physio for the same reason.

In terms of progress, I’m now managing nearly 40 mins of road riding every day inc some stretching exercises - next appointment is further x rays in July - trying to be as careful as possible!

Be careful out there folks!!!

Yep. Showing off on a new drop off up Leith Hill last Thursday and washed out the front wheel, resulting in a short sleep, temporary (thankfully) memory loss and very tender ribs.
Weirdly, the wife is being sympathetic although has said she'll not be able to sleep when I go out night riding again.
Very, very lucky not to break anything (other than the brake reservoir cover) and it's all on film, just for future giggles and Pinkbike

Bit of a double knee niggle going on, discovered I could raise my saddle ~1cm, but I moved it forward at same time and think I've gone too far forward now.

At least 3.5Kg heavier than my lightest around Feb (now at least 79.5Kg), almost back where I started around Xmas, the cold cross buns and choclate raisins really have to go... Or I need to start doing more frequent workouts.

Yep - old footballing knee and ankle injuries playing up after twisting them doing lots of lockdown walking on rutted dry fields. Missing the bike now after nearly 4 weeks.

My hips killing me just now, especially after rides, have the same thing as Andy Murray had, so require a hip replacement, but told to wait as long as i possibly can, unfortunately due to the current climate i can't get the injections, so it's one day riding, 2 days hobbling.

Oh yeah, as for the OP, i had similar a couple of weeks ago, practicing the manual on what is now very hard packed ground, i just had one of those where it lifted then reared up seriously fast, too fast to react and landed hard, the bike left the ground and went up and forward, and i had a very sore tailbone area!

Not yet, nearly had a big one out on what was supposed to be a gentle ride at the weekend, came out of a berm slightly off and my front wheel skimmed a load of roots/stumps at the side of the trail. Skipped all of the rest of the single track After that and went straight home. Not going outside now until the rain sods off.

Being pretty careful out there, just local singletrack and no gnar. Stunning weather and dusty trails but I’ve had two front wheel washouts. Second one was slow but landed hard on the side of my thigh, bit of a dead leg and continued with the ride. Increasing hurt that evening, next day leg swollen up, could barely bend it and very sensitive skin on the front of my thigh. Called the doc and told a quadriceps contusion grade 2.
A week later, still slight swollen, can’t bend to 90 degrees, and waking me in the night. All very annoying.

I'd like to say "whoah, dude. The wave was at least triple-overhead and my ba%%s were in my chest..."

The reality:

Mon 25th may. I thought I could squeeze in a quick ride on my skateboard.

It went backwards like really, really quickly.

I went forwards like really, really quickly.

And if you're familiar with the sound of a lion gnawing on the end of a bone, that was the shock-wave travelling up my body.

A passer-by enquired as to my well-being.

I politely refused his offer of help.

Then I tried to stand up.

Not a friggin chance.

So I asked him to call an ambulance for me.

A security guard appeared and did likewise.

Then a couple of policemen on bikes appeared and lent some authority to the ambulance request.

I thought that I had merely sprained something.

The x-ray and subsequent CT scan confirmed that I have a pretty big fracture to my upper knee (fibula?)

So, five hours in surgery and I'm now the proud owner of a pretty big plate in my leg, and a big leg-brace too!

The staff at qeh were fantastic, particularly the paramedics for getting my 18 stone onto the gurney.

It was a stupid injury, no argument. But my puny body just wasn't designed to bear that much weight and a fracture was inevitable. And the top half of my leg/ knee acted like a firing-pin.

Definitely wasn't deliberate and I'm glad it didn't happen indoors (I'd never even have reached the door-handle),or have any chunks of bone sticking out.

Touch wood (taps head), any future injuries🤒 will be more MTB related.

Stay safe😛

I broke my ankle at the start of May. I was riding up a bridleway I've ridden loads before, including with my son in his trailer. I was riding up the raised middle bit when the front wheel skidded down into a deep tyre track. I went over and landed badly.

Feeling like a right ****, I desperately hoped that I'd just sprained it. I rode back the 5 miles crying, dragged myself into the house and checked out the damage. My ankle was impressively misshapen, and the pain wasn't easing, so we had to call an ambulance (my husband couldn't take me to hospital because our three year old was in bed).

Paramedic confirmed that it was almost certainly broken, possibly dislocated, as there were some bones missing from their usual position.

Unstable fracture, no weight bearing and a cast for eight weeks. No downstairs toilet, so I'm mostly staying upstairs. God, I miss downstairs, nevermind outdoors.😭

My husband has basically become a single parent, housekeeper, carer and butler. I used to think that being laid up in bed getting waited on would be ace, but the reality? It's a bit shit.

@mrstoast

Pretty amazing feat to ride back those 5 miles.

I didn't miss the past weeks heatwave tbh.

I hope you recover soon and are back on the bike (hopefully with an e-bike kit attached)😌

I was on the ebike when it happened - I don't think that I would have made it back on my Stumpy!

You're right though, I should probably buy another ebike...

Ooooh, so I’m injured now.

Did a long zwift ride this morning 2.5hrs 1:40 of which was a workout so none stop pedalling. Got a bit sweaty, but comfy enough.

Anyhow, went and had a wash, towelling off and OUCH! There was some chafeage.

Had a soak in the bath this evening, and the old chap has 4 lateral stripes of friction burns across the top, it looks like a very small tiger has taken a swipe at my member.

Might have to have a day off the bike tomorrow.

A cat ran out on me 6 weeks ago on the road bike. Went down on my left side. Managed to ride home a mile away but could barely walk after an hour being home. X-rays showed no break but it was two weeks of planning every move round the house, paracetamol, ibuprofen, codeine, naproxen....and barely being able to lift my foot off the ground. Nothing helped the pain.

Back riding now, but still feels like something pretty traumatised right in the ball joint area of my hip. Still hurts getting my trousers and socks on.

But it all sounds pretty mild fayre compared to some of you guys!

kinda wincing at this thread....I guess the nettle rash on my shins is to be praised!

I faceplanted half way down a big steep chute at Mallards today and currently look like an abused spouse, does that count?

All kinds of wrong on what was really nothing technically challenging. 7 stitches bottom lip, 3 in the top and 3 in the gum. Stick punctured up into neck/bottom of jaw. Not fun. Grazed every limb but that’s just superficial.

Lessons learnt - body weight was way too far forwards, blown rear shock needs replacing and not just dealing with (it was like a 200psi pogo stick), don’t bed new rear pads in whilst also having a blown shock (using too much front brake bias as rears hadn’t bedded), and concentrate! Lack of concentration + weight forwards + pogo + no rear brake = face + fence post. Convinced the missus it was the shitty bikes fault so sold it ASAP and new one to be ordered soon (when she recovers from the upset of the whole thing - I said I wanted to talk about bikes last night but was met with “why, you don’t have one and won’t need one” so me thinks she needs more time).

Knackered/tore something by coming in way too hot and fast to a new gym-cycle + rowing-machine session 4-5 years back, re-injuring/worsening a groin-strain/tear from from 7 years before that. It obviously was a weak point. It’s taken this long for it to settle down and then last week I jump on the turbo trainer for even a moderate 30 min spin at 80rpm and ‘pop’ goes the ****ing weasels again.

I can’t even describe the frustration and yet have been in a much worse situation (wheelchair then crutches for years) in the past but even that has been largely fixed after only 20 years of dogged determination. Why this nagging pubalgia is so annoying is because it limits me almost entirely to pootling and I’m piling on the pounds stones.

Looks like getting into yoga/core-strengthening/hillwalking and sacking off both the turbo and climbing in the saddle. My bull in a china shop mentality has really done it this time, and am running out of time (ie not getting any younger, demotivation/frustration kicking in)

My sympathies to anyone struggling to keep their game on. It can get better. Feeling sorry/frustrated (delete as applicable) for yourself is the worst. I’m reminded (and shamed) daily by caring for better half. She was a triathlete 40. By 50 she could no longer swim, run, cycle or even drive a car. Her mental fortitude is humbling and openly inspiring

The mind is the place where battles are won or lost.

Cut my left knee to the bone in a daft fall. Only three stitches but two weeks down the line and it’s still sore. Mixed advise on recovery time. Some saying as much as another four weeks. Can’t face that long Off the bike. Anyone know when it will be ok to ride again?

I’ve just re-read this thread and realised just how lucky I was at the weekend. And with pretty much every other crash I’ve had.

On Saturday I lost the front exiting a rock chute and my shoulder and head hit the fire road hard enough to make me bin the helmet. Then on Sunday I went over the bars down a very high, very steep chute with a rain gulley in it, faceplanting right by a log pile, which my previously injured shoulder hit, and eating a lot of dirt. I got away with a few contusions and a sore neck/shoulder. I do look like I’ve been punched in the face though...