Crashed Again

The Brits didn't go as well as I had hoped this weekend. Friday practice mas moved forwards half an hour due to a lot of people getting stuck in traffic so I only got 30 minutes sleep (3 laps and one gate) before I had to run back to the hotel to work until 2am. I was then up again for 7am to get ready to race. I missed part of the practice as I took longer to get ready so only had a couple of laps.

I did 2 gates and then crashed on my third gate and was apparently knocked out for 10 minutes on the track and I have broken a bunch of ribs on my left hand side.

This meant that I didn't get to race at all! Gutted but I would have motoed anyway as the level of riding was really high and we had 31 riders so I wouldn't have made it out of the motos anyway but it would have been nice to have ridden at least one race. Still it gives me another year of practice to get faster.

I definitely have to work on my manuals and jumping over the winter as there seems to be at least one big jump on most tracks now that is too deep or long to manual quickly and jumping is the best option.

I have a couple of months rest coming up as I can't ride now which is a shame as I have the SW champs coming up and would have loved to race that. I am resting as much as possible now to see if I can be better by then but I don't think I will be judging by the amount of pain that I am in just now.

I am going to take pain killers every 2 hours for now to dull the pain so that I can at least sleep a bit for the first week or so and then I will cut down the pain killers after about a week to see the exact position I am in.

I need to get some better body armour as I was unfortunately using my least padded body armour when I crashed which had no back padding a bit of chest padding and no rib padding.

I also have to get a new helmet again as my 100% helmet had take 2 really hard impacts in the last couple of days so I pretty much done!

I also can't get the strange smell out of it!!!!

I am looking for leatt body armour as everyone says that it is the best. I may also get a leatt helmet as they are supposed to be good. I also need padded under shorts and knee pads to go under my race trousers.