'The Crash'

So as you probably know by now I had a pretty decent confrontation with a motor vehicle at high speed. It all happened pretty quickly with it only being with in 300m from the finish. I was basically leading a small group through a township (getting ready to sprint) when there was a car so I passed it thinking that the marshalls or whatever where dealing with it. Just as I started to pass down the left hand side it turned straight across on me. That was it, collarbone written off season pretty well over.

Just as a quick note, what the hell where the organisers and police at the event even doing having a car on the course, especially inside the last Km.

After that I went to the hospital in the near by city Gap. They mucked around for all of 4hours doing not much. When I finally got the X rays they said it was just a small fracture. So a painful 3 hour car trip home. After 3 days of a sore back and pain across the back of my shoulders, I went in for more X ray and check up kind of thing at the local hospital in Aubenas. After more waiting they came back to say that it was dislocated as well as fractured so they would operate tonight!

So after the operation it was pretty painful and they had me on the strongest drugs they had, morphine. I wasn't liking that to much and had a couple of vomit sessions.

So that's about it really so im now sporting 2 big titanium rods in my shoulder pretty cool aye?

Just trying to work through insurance claims, Flights etc and also trying to lock down a new team for next year. But with missing a months worth of FFC points has defiantly put me on the back foot.

Finally I would just like to thank Andre, Olivier (club president and DS) for all the help and running around that they've done. Also my team mates and everyone else back home for all the support.

Cheers

Kieran