It has been now been 11 days since Hobo Harry disrupted my training, which therefore disrupted my simple, basic lifestyle. With the last week being spent alone in my flat, with Fabio racing in Ireland, and having no bike to ride, you think this could be a recipe for a little bit of trouble. Well, unfortunately this is no place for trouble reports, but I did find other ways to pass my spare time. So first a bit of an update on how I'm healing up.
My helmet took a lot of the impact from the crash, but my head did still get a bit banged up. Thats why their are a few grammar misstakes In this right up. Please forgive me, and hopefully I'll recover full brain function. But that's is unlikely since i never actually had full brain function,
A photo of my knee showing what I looked like immediately after the crash and 9 days later.
My hip after the crash and 7 days later. This healed the quickest thanks to the good plaster that I had.
My hands did get nicely messed up, but 9 days later they are healing up. Good thing I was wearing gloves.
But what hurt the most was the bike breaking. But my frame has been replaced and I got back riding yesterday. Was quite a relief to be riding again.
But what have I been doing the last week without my bike? I've been to the spin bikes in the gym a couple of times, but that didn't take long to drive me completely insane. But I haven't just been sitting on my arse all week. I've had the opportunity to get out and take a closer look at Boulder. I decided to study the flora and fauna around the front range. Below is a photo of the flora found round on Pearl St.
I also took a note of the wildlife life in downtown Boulder. Below is a squirrel, showing that animals are trying just as hard (ok, maybe not quite as hard) as us humans to keep up in the expanding waistline evolution. You can see a slice of pizza in the squirrel's mouth, almost the same size as the squirrel.
I also found a lizard that wasn't on the fast track to obesity. This little guy was running round pretty quickly over the rocks.
I spent a lot of time walking through some of the trails around Boulder. These trails were right at my backyard and I had never checked them out till now.
I also made some new friends at the boulder apartments where I live. I spent the afternoon learning how to balance on a slack line. Being unable to balance on a bike recently, and having the balance of a dead sloth I didn't think I'd be able to stay up for long. Some of you might remember that I have fallen off a three wire bridge before. But after a bit of training and tutoring I was able to stay up for a while, as shown in the photo below.
Though I'm still a long way from being able to walk a length of the rope. But I did find that I was quite good at lying down on the slack line. For some reason lying down seemed to come naturally to me; must be all that sleeping that I'm so good at.
Well now that I have my bike back it'll be back on the road for me. Now when I head down the Boulder Creek path I'll be riding, not walking. What a relief. Not long till I head back home to New Zealand, but enough time to enjoy the best the US has to offer. But not enough time to complete my lists, but I am over half way to the states. As for the fast food lists, all the time in the world and I still couldn't get there.
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