Well its now been 6 months since I last rode properly. The new racing season has started and I am missing it big style. I was meant to be in Denmark this weekend at the MTBO training camp!
I’ve finally had my consultant appointment come through with the Birmingham Royal Orthopaedic Hospital for the 14th May so not long to wait now. I had another physio appointment today. Essentially I have plateaued in my recovery and am just making sure it doesn’t get any worse and am keeping the pain away as much as possible. Although the disc is much better he thinks the facet joint will not mend without some form of direct treatment and thinks they will probably want to inject it, which should then let it heal if I behave and don’t over do it.
In the mean time he has given me a ‘backlife 2002′ to try for a couple of weeks. Apparently its normally used to relieve pain for arthritis sufferers. Its like a combination between a food mixer and 70s weight loss machine!
It reduced the family to giggles earlier when I first showed them so its worth it just for the comedy value.
I have also finally turned 40. This year was meant to be the culmination of 3 years training where I was to go after a medal at the World Masters. I was also going to learn how to unicycle, so those have been put on hold. In the old days mid life crisis involved buying a sports car. Now it seems to be the thing to get a posh road bike and be a MAMIL. So I am going with the old trend, not being able to cycle I have decided to get the other long resident of our garage out and on the road. The tax disc shows the last time I had it out was 2002 !
