Archive for August, 2009

It´s now been almost a week since I crashed in Bromont and my recovery has progressed quite a bit. I got back home on Monday night and visited a doctor on Tuesday first thing in the morning. They told me that everything looks really good and I should be recovering pretty quick. At the moment I don´t really have anymore pain and I am actually able to move my shoulder a little bit to keep it mobile. I need to be careful not to put much load on it that it will heal back to normal. I should be able to start easy fysio next week witch is good thing.
Doctor also told me that my pelvis is nothing to worry about, it will heal just fine with out any treatment.  It´s just massively bruised but I am able to walk normal without pain.

After the race in MTSA we did some testing for FOX racing shox on Monday and Tuesday before Bromont. It was really good for me because after those two days of fine tuning my suspension I felt really confident on my bike. I was really looking forward to race in Bromont and get good result.
Track was pretty much the same as before they made some minor changes to it but nothing too big.
In practice I was riding good and felt really confident on my bike. I qualified in 10th place witch I was pretty happy about because I have struggled all year to put a good run together in the semifinal. I knew that I could do better in the finals.
My final run started of pretty good didn´t make any big mistakes and was feeling smooth. At the very end of the rock garden just before the “highway” bottom bit I missed my line and went little too far to the left over the berm. I was trying to get back to my line but I hit big hole with my front wheel just before this drop off and flew over the bars down the drop off and landed on my hip and shoulder. That was the end of my race. I got off the track and walked to the paramedics and they took me down on a quad. I knew that I was hurt because my shoulder was in pain and my hip was really sore too. Our team manager took me to the hospital for x-rays and they find out that I have fractured my collarbone and I also have fracture in my pelvis.
It´s not too bad my collarbone is perfectly in place and it´s attach and my pelvis has a small crack on it. So it will all heal by it self and I hope it woun´t take too long.
At the moment I am not sure if I can race worlds or the finals in schladming.  It´s still too early to say but I am hoping that I will be fine by then.
I am flying back home tonight from montreal and go see a specialist and see what they say.
Stay tuned for more injury updates.