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@hippy
It was fucking cold.
Twitter blocked 3rd party apps so my Talon client doesn't work now. So I moved to Insta. Fuck Musk.
Crashed the second day (and the first actually) (~350k) and broke a rib. Pushed on for another couple of days (~700k?) but I couldn't handle the rough climbs - every bump was agony, hence walking most of the Old Colonial Road. Turns out I also had a chest infection too which made sleeping and breathing pretty fucked in general. I could ride the descents by standing up but couldn't deal with another 30km climb after Issafen so called it. Got a lift with camera car to CP and then got a bus to finish line where I went to hospital and found this shit out. They gave me antibiotics for the infection along with Vit C, magnesium and zinc and then on second visit they gave me codeine and an antimflammatory. Nothing much else to do. Home now and I think I might check myself in again though as nothing seems to be getting better. I can breathe ok but laying down at night is fucking painful and my collarbone seems a bit clunky so I wonder if I've done something to that or it's just being pulled out of line by the damage elsewhere.
Fucking mountain bikes...