Josh,

I know everybody loves my gnarly bent pinkie finger, but y'all don't have to emulate it.

Get better dude, and get that finger fixed.

TT bars?  You don't need your pinky to ride indoors.  Not even on rollers.  

This was taken in the ER, it looked slightly further bent at the accident (or perhaps it was in my head!).

Jeff O, quit mocking him with your straight fingers there in the like button.

@JoshuaC ouch! that photo is awesome but it makes me a little queasy. Good idea you're not self treating.

^ not good.  Heal up soon dude.

I mentioned TT bars because of the cast...no need for a grip, you can just press your fist onto the pad where ur forearm normally lays on.

Good & Bad:

Good: just went on a run in the sleet/rain with shorts on and a cute chick told me I was "hardcore". Win.

Bad: I decided to rest and stretch and clean my belly button lint, only to discover a nice little bit of what I assume is intestine popping in/out.  I had inguinal hernia surgery 2 years ago.  Not fun.

Has anyone had an umbilical hernia before and what did you do?  I'm thinking this is one I can live with for awhile by just avoiding certain abdominal exercises/stretches.  Don't have time/$ for surgery right now.  I think it's just super tender from me fucking with it, otherwise I would've never noticed.

Thanks, duders.

Jesus dude.  Ok, here is was I "learned" when I asked some people who might know.

A friend just had a hernia operated on. He was riding his bike 3 days before and about a week after. 

Yeah. Depends on the seriousness of the hernia. Mine tool closer to a month to feel normal-ish. Still feels tight and tearing sometimes if I stretch a certain way.

Now I have a new new injury.

Second ankle! Dooring never gets old.

That looks like a ganglion cyst. I have one on the top of my foot towards the instep

Old man

Mrrrrrrrjhhhhhh. Get owf my lawn!!!!

Thanks to Ragot's cx skillz lessons I was able to keep it upright. I'm glad I called the cops tho. I was getting ready to ride off but the guy was a major shitbird and I recalled the times when I've tried to be "cool" and gotten screwed. No broken bones, just massive hematoma. I'm a monster!

Also thanks to Ragot for picking up bike at the scene and waiting at ER. And making dinner. We're dating!

Bike lanes fucking suck. Fuck Bloomturd.

poor fella

what did he make you for dinner?

how many candles did he light?

16 candles.  Made a romantic sweet potato and chicken with kale din din.  Oh, but then Liz and Luka showed up.

If I didn't have bad luck I'd have no luck at all,
Hank Jeff Sr.

did they drain it ?

Just wanna give shout out of gratitude to the main sponsor of the Kissena Prospect series Lucarelli and Castaldi.

Phil Castaldi has been extremely helpful getting all the paperwork sorted from my accident last week. Super nice guy and knows what he's doing, even tracking down the doorer's insurance info bc the NYPD didn't fill it out on the report.

Anyway, it's guys like this that remind me of that while we're all local schmucks that aren't very good, there is a connection between people who like cycling. Well, not all of us....but many! It's awesome they support the series too.

Anybody ever had acupressure? I've gotten some massage and acupuncture treatments for my chronically stiff mid/lower left side back, but was thinking I should try this instead. Thanks for any recommendations/suggestions, duders.

I've posted this Bicycling Mag "Stretching For Cyclists" before, but correct stretching (where you're engaging specific muscle groups) is great preventative.

Stretching?  Is that when you get a feed zone bottle and it's a little farther away that you like?  What is this "Stretching" that you speak of?  Is is some kind of interval?

Yeah or stretching to get your pint off the bar... yeah that's all "good stretching".

Was out last night doing some pretty hard LT intervals. Towards the last set, the inside left of my right knee started to give me some real grief. By the time i got home, ithurt even to clip in. This morning feels a little better although it's definitely still sore. Monday night I did some sprint intervals, but before that pretty much had 10 days off the bike. So I don't think it's "over-use". And I've put over 1000 miles on the bike since getting fitted by Al, never once having a problem. So I have to believe its not fit-related. Anyone had a similar experience? How best to treat it? Or should I just HTFU?

Ice and ibuprofen (or another antiinflammatory).
Do not continue riding hard once it starts hurting. In fact, don't ride so hard that it starts hurting. HTFU is definitely not a sustainable strategy.

My knee (right one as well) is a little janked right now.  For reference I did about a week of ibuprofin and total rest with a lot of ITB stretching.

Thanks jules & dstokes.  That's just really shitty timing: why couldn't this have happened the day before I went away?!  The injury would have received 10 days of bacon sandwich-fuelled rest.

There's your problem; you're supposed to RUB the bacon ON the injury...