Training Log Archive: Carbons Offset

Another day of taking it easy. Feeling about 90 percent. Rested a bunch today but spent a bit more time on Facebook and AP, didn't feel like it was at risk of bothering me. Sometimes a headache that was 1/10, often nothing.

The emerg doc last night told me to take it especially easy for the next 24-48 hours with minimal stimulation. No bright lights, no deep conversations, no reading. I figured I would throw some simple movies on in the background and just listen to them to help me pass the time but when she also suggested no music, I figured listening to movies was out too. What?! For 24 hours? Oh man, that's going to be really hard!
As it turned out, I was quite content to do nothing today and just nap lots. Didn't feel especially tired or groggy but was happy to stay in bed and nap a bunch. Stayed in bed, glanced at Facebook occasionally but not much. Felt like I did a good job of doing almost nothing.

Felt noticeably a bit better around 9 pm, almost exactly 24 hours after the accident. Maybe it was because I got up and ate after not eating much today.

Only a small headache today, maybe a 1 or 2 out of 10, at first behind my eyes, then from the top of my head and down. They said to expect a headache and only worry if it was getting worse, or beyond what I could manage with Tylenol. I didn't need any Tylenol.

CONCUSSION

Nordic Centre with Carbon, Erdem and Patric. Up and across EKG East to the Meadow and up Odyssey. Chose to descend Odyssey (blue) instead of Terminator (black).

Next thing I know, I'm sitting on the ground and people are looking at me and talking to me, telling me not to move or turn my head, while they warn approaching riders that we have a man down. Apparently I knocked myself unconscious for about a minute. I'm trying to figure out where I am, and where on the trail that something caused me to crash. Carbon and the others call 911 and an ambulance comes right into the trails just a short walk below us. A paramedic hikes up and checks me out. We agree that I am okay to walk down to the ambulance, where the Nordic Centre's side-by-side ATV is also there, along with an Alberta Parks truck. I get a ride down to the hospital where they check me out in emerg and my mind starts coming back a little, but still I never regain the few seconds before the crash so I will never know what happened. Based on how I must have hit, I must have lost traction on my front wheel. It looks like I went down fast and forward. Cracked the inside of the helmet a little by the right temple, and pressed the inner harness against the styrofoam hard enough to make a solid impression in the one side. Right knee is scraped and the back of the right shoulder, along with a long dirt smear down the right shoulder. The right hand feels like it took a good slam on the bones of the lateral side, I'm guessing I was still holding the grip when the bike slammed down on this side.

Most of the focus in emerg is about deciding whether I need to go into Calgary for a CT scan for a possible brain bleed. We decide that I don't.

C • Yikes! 6

Past the far zoo bridge to Inglewood and back.
Right toe was not happy.

West Bragg Creek
Ranger Summit, Snakes and Ladders, Ridgeback 3, Bobcat, Sugar Daddy, Snagmore, Boundary Ridge.

Near zoo bridge, back to 10th street underpass. Ran into Colleen and Randy along the way.
Nice to be running in reasonably cool temperatures for the first time in a long time.

C • and no smoke? 2

C • and no smoke? 1

Apparently our CrossFit Games competition recovery diet of ice cream sundaes every night was completely acceptable. Plus several hours of mountain biking each day.