Guess what I did today?
I put my bike on the trainer today. So I turned a cautious wheel for the first time today, three weeks after I crashed and broke my collarbone and two weeks after surgery.
“How did you go from hurting to riding,” my lovely bride asked.
I’d just gotten so tired of hurting, that I wanted to try something else. So I rolled out the mat. I quietly put the trainer in place. I figured out how to mount the bike more-or-less one-handed. I put the front wheel in the plastic brick and had to really stretch my leg to get over the now-taller bike.
Clip. Clip. Pedal. I stood up and leaned over the handlebars. I could feel my collarbone — there is only one position I can be in where I don’t feel it right now — but it didn’t hurt.
Best 45 minutes of the day.
Now. If I can only shake this new crick in my neck.
