The 2008 season so far
Bloody hell!
What a year it has been already! We had a slight issue with the team frames arriving on time which meant I rocked up to my first race on a very last minute borrowed bike! Needless to say I took a solid third place and a podium to start of my season with my new sponsors www.ride-central.com .
I got my new PDC Kingpin frame built up for my 2nd 4x race of the year, turned up and did a couple of practice runs having never ridden it before. It was breathtakingly quick and on my second run I cleared a double which I had rarely gone near in the past! So I decided to race a friend of mine on my third practice run, needless to say I got a little ragged and overconfident and ended up binning it straight over the bars. I new something was wrong straight away as my shoulder was killing me. I quickly checked my recently recovered collarbone and was relieved to find no broken bones. I went to hospital with a suspected dislocated right shoulder and fractured left arm. Thankfully my arm was merely heavily bruised but my shoulder was bad. It had not only dislocated but I managed to tear my rotator cuff muscles. So over a month on I am just starting to get back on the bike.
My next race is on the 30th of march, after which I am racing for a month solidly and can't wait! Lets just hope I have got my injuries out of the way for this season!
Happy trails
James