10-03-11, 12:48 PM
No problem at all! It's important to know what you do wrong to prevent it from happening again.
At a training session in the woods we were going down a fast but easy descent. Probably 40-50 km/h which is a lot on bumpy terrain. In a corner I got too far to the left and didn't see a tree stump... I was thrown over the bike, or backwards, I'm not really sure. All I remember was that I almost couldn't breathe. At the hospital they took x-rays and apparently my back had been compressed, one of the vertebrae was broken. I had titanium inserted in my back for a year to support, just got it out this winter.
From time to time my back hurts, but I guess that's what you can expect. I was pretty lucky not to get paralyzed or something worse. I often think about what happened, the feeling of hitting the tree stump and not being control and so on... But I don't have problems talking about it.
I attached a picture from the day it happened
At a training session in the woods we were going down a fast but easy descent. Probably 40-50 km/h which is a lot on bumpy terrain. In a corner I got too far to the left and didn't see a tree stump... I was thrown over the bike, or backwards, I'm not really sure. All I remember was that I almost couldn't breathe. At the hospital they took x-rays and apparently my back had been compressed, one of the vertebrae was broken. I had titanium inserted in my back for a year to support, just got it out this winter.
From time to time my back hurts, but I guess that's what you can expect. I was pretty lucky not to get paralyzed or something worse. I often think about what happened, the feeling of hitting the tree stump and not being control and so on... But I don't have problems talking about it.
I attached a picture from the day it happened
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