well in the name of points chasing to get my 2 points for 3rd cat I went against my better judgment and went to chertsey, to cut a long story short after about 3 laps I was in my first ever road race crash by those traffic cones after the finish line. 2 of us came down. I was the poor innocent sap caught behind the falling rider in front of me who had his front wheel hit by the back wheel of the rider in front of him. So yesterday I spent about 8 hours in Lewisham hospital waiting, getting seen, waiting again etc, eventually got home by 11;30pm.
Main injuries are cut ankle and bad road rash on hip and buttock (never thought I'd be writing about my buttocks in public) and the most serious is a deep cut to the elbow, with, as the doctor described, a chunk missing, so can't be sutured together but left open to heal upwards. Lots of sore muscles as well, neck shoulder, upper thigh.
Main thing is the bike is ok and even managed to cycle back to woking and then to home before stiffening up ( )
Anyway so I'll be missing Palace this week so good luck to Hal in getting your one extra point for 3rd class. I am so peed off as now I may have to continue racing after the holidays to get those 2 points as I don't want to start at bottom again next year .
Oh, the crash is all Sylv's fault as I didn't wear my lucky hot pants, (worn in all my other races)
So my advice is to keep away from chertsey 4th cat races, according to the organiser in his briefing before the race he said there were many entered who had never raced before; the guy who brought me down was a mountain biker in his second ever race (poor guy though I felt sorry for him, he punctured in his first and crashed in his second!).