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Got wiped out by a car on saturday morning. Looooong story short (I'll do a proper post with more details later in the week as short on time), extremely lucky with a bunch of bruising, road rashed knees, knock on the head, 2 x rays but only a broken fingertip as a long term injury.
Be Safe out there everyone!
Bike a complete write off - broken frame, bars, forks and a very buckled (but surprisingly not broken) front carbon wheel. Weirdly rear and most of groupset barely even a scuff and appears intact/salveagable (except shifters).
No issues with driver being at fault - happened in front of a Military Police unit (armed!), so progressing with claim against him now. The bike/financial seems straight forward (done it before), but the injury claim has to be done differently -
through the DOJ centrally, then comes back to the insurer to sign off before any claim/payout. Sounds like an absolute ballache and I need to 'hire a solicitor' (according to guys insurance) to get it done - even with the guy at fault, admitting liability and being all handled by the police. We'll see.
If anything as I'm amazingly mostly ok (I'll take a fractured finger any day from t-boning a car at 25mph), I hope to get the bike side of things sorted easily & quickly to at least be back riding before the end of 'summer'. If the personal injury takes months/years to sort then so be it...! Do feel like I could ride now... But taking it easy this week - to be 100% for weekend family plans (my Birthday at Legoland). So back on Zwift next week it is...
Annoyingly even though everything else is healing really well (feel like I could ride already!), the finger has a plastic support on it. Know I can't drive with that on... Saw the fracture clinic today expecting it to get taken off and be able to drive... Nope, gotta wear it another 3-4 weeks and as it's a 'finger break' (fractured a fingertip ffs) my car insurance is technically invalid so I can't drive during that time either! Arses! Lucky I can WFH - but system/remote stuff is only a part of an 'IT Assistant' role so figuring out logistics of what days I can work in the office and how to get there & back without riding or driving.
Made me snigger! They do look f*ing odd... Always have. Especially most of the time you see them on audax guys bikes who rage against disc brakes as they 'ruin the classic clean lines' of a bike. Have a word!
Would be interesting to see how Garmin tells it's 'heat adaption' and just how much that relates to the recommendation.
If it's telling you, you're only 30% heat adapted, then ride outdoors in that heat, does it mean your fluid consumption is 170% what it would be if you where 90% adapted. Why it thinks youre that low adapted (is that low, what's normal that a bassline should be for someone fully adapted?) when you've been living there for months I don't know... Does it even know your 'home' location to judge your current adaption against, I mean, does it just think you're on holiday for a few weeks, so judging how adapted you are in X period - but as you're out there much longer, likely adapted quite a bit to it, as it can't see many changes, you're under adapted/struggling to adapt as it's not seeing changes... Does that make sense?
. Now I know what it is it’s fine but before it drove me nuts for ages.
