Welcome to the Club
Thankfully this is not my collarbone, it’s Jim Cornell’s
Ouch!!!!! He hurt it crashing during the bike leg of a triathlon.
I remember reading a study once that said if you have raced bicycles for 4 years or more, there is a 50% chance you have broken your collarbone.
Welcome to the club Jim!
I am “almost” a member, but instead of my collarbone breaking, the rotator cuff in my shoulder shredded, crashing on a Velodrome during a race.
At least Jim is in good spirits about it, and that definitely helps.
I always thought that after they have healed, broken collarbones look like someone has implanted hot wheels cars under the skin.
It would be possible to live life completely safely; wearing a suit of armor & never leaving a concrete bunker that has TV running 24/7.
That is a valid choice for some, but for many others, that would not be a life. It’s the taste of sweat & flight & effort & possibility & risk, which makes life, life…
and there are many ways to find this, not just sports, and frankly on the grand scale of things, most sports are small risk compared to the rewards…
How does that Ani Defranco song go?
I am looking for the holes
the holes in your jeans
because I want to know
are they worn out in the seat
or are they worn out in the knees?
Filed under: from home
Oh no! I was inlining this morning and just thought to wonder what kind of workouts Jim was doing! Jim, I hope you’re ok!
Actually, if we stayed home and stayed still all the time to be safe, we’d die of heart disease.
Wow,
I hope Jim has a speedy recovery! I recall @ a track cycling class at T-Town, that it only takes 7 Pounds of force if you put your hand out to break your fall. They told us if you are gonna crash, keep your hands on the bars…..Ouch!
that’s a pretty gnarly x-ray there, jim. i imagine you’ll have to take it easy for a while. like 3, maybe 4 hours (you know, waiting in that emergency room for them to tell you that you can’t do anything for 4-6 weeks… i’m sure THAT will go over well).
It may take 7 pounds of force to break your collarbone like that, but I’d rather have a broken collarbone than road rash on this pretty face of mine.
-the crash
All I can think of is E.T. saying “o-u-c-h.”
Mend fast Jim!!!
WOW, I don’t know Jim, but a speedy recovery is wished. And hey, at least he can now say he has something in common with Carl Verheijen who also just broke his colar bone. Cyclists and skaters are tough, so I’m sure this won’t keep him down for long, just as crash said.
Thanks for the info, Andrew. You never fail to keep us filled with information.
collar bone crash victim here, but that one looks about ten times worse! while I was able to return to full time work in 2 weeks (admittedly quite prematurely), Jim’s break seems to be pretty thorough. I went through a long summer of sitting on a stationary bike to gradually sticking my hands on the bars to riding only on the velodrome to finally road riding again…I guess I learned an important lesson in patience at least! (and that most medical advice is optional: if I hadn’t used my arm for 4-6 weeks, I shudder to think of the useless atrophied mess I’d have been in for way longer afterward)
Hey Jim,
Like Andrew I broke mine on the velodrome, but I was skating, not cycling. I know that 2 weeks later I was spinning in a sling. Still, you know that going fast now makes me not want to, you know, go fast.
Eat well, and stay away from cats. They will walk all over the collarbone if they get the chance.
If you put your hand out to break your fall, you can also smash a wrist or more. (My partner has some very creepy x-rays of his with 4 big steel pins in it after dropping his motorcycle at only 20 mph).
Tuck and roll.
Thanks everybody for the get well wishes!!!
I saw the post surgey x-ray today. I have to 5″ pins holding it in place.
Presently, I am doing a lot of spinning and intervals on my trainer. I am using my Power Cranks (also known as Power Craps) and the one handed arm in a sling.
I am also doing core work, slide board, low walks. Basically, everything none impact.
I will be in the pool perfecting my one arm swimming next week.
I be back on the road in 5 weeks.
Thanks again. I feel the LOVE!
Jim