Crash! National XC champs unlikely

Bad news- I was training by myself in Innerleithen doing the xc trail yesterday and managed to fall off. I was just coming down the descent after the summit and I was caught by surprise by one of the bigger jumps. I didn't lift my front wheel up enough and I did a bit of a nose dive and face planted the ground. I also whacked my shoulder.

I was a bit worried about what I should do as I was by myself (stupid!) and my face was bleeding everywhere and my shoulder was in agony. I rolled down the rest of the trail until I hit a fire road which I followed around the mountain to Walkerburn. At Walkerburn I managed to bump into some guys who worked at a chemical engineering plant who took me to the clinic at Innerleithen. They stitched my face up while my aunt and Granddad collected me. I still had a lot of pain in my shoulder so we went to the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh but luckily it is only severe bruising and some lightly torn ligaments. That should heal quickly.

Racing wise I don't think the national champs is very likely, but there is a slim chance. The trouble is I need to have full control over the technical sections (of which there are a lot) so I would probably crash again. I should be able to train again very soon though- at least on the turbo or maybe the road.

I will try and put up a few pictures of my ugly face soon. My black eye is pretty impressive. Well done to the track guys in Belarus at the moment who got silver in the Team Pursuit.

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