Broken on the 20th of Dec, the consultant said it was at the "good" end of the bone.

So, will I be riding at Hit the North (20 Feb)? Anybody have any experience of this injury?

Fitness: Gonna be stepping up the running from the end of Feb, and got a turbo trainer on the way. But, anybody know how to use it? Looked at a few sites and they all call for specialist bikes, cadence and HRMs. Can't really be bothered with all that, is there a "go like a bugger for 10 min, take it easy for 10min" sort of regime for the less serios 'athlete'?

This and any other advice V much appreciated as always,

Alex

PS Happy New Year
A

If its not a bad break you'll be back on your bike in no time.

Mine was 6 weeks healing time and exactly 6 weeks to the day of breaking it, I was doing a DH race in the Alps 8)

I did megavalanche 8 weeks after breaking mine in 2008.
however, folks at hospital didn't see the break at the time, so I continued physio and never went for any of that immobility stuff.
putting it in a sling is the worst thing you can do, muscle wastage etc.

good luck with it

Hate to disagree, dasnut, but if I hadn't kept mine in a sling I would have had to keep popping the ends of the bone back together every five minutes.

(Instead of every ten, with the sling.)

You could make it, just don't crash!

Visit Brian Simpson in Ipswich, he's a bone welder. Treats most of the MX and superbike guy's.

dasnut – Member

putting it in a sling is the worst thing you can do, muscle wastage etc.

Sorry mate but thats absolute bollocks. I broke mine landing after a trick went wrong kitesurfing and i guarantee without a sling keeping the arm immobile i would have been in complete agony and the bone would not have had a chance to heal.

3 weeks after the break i was doing RPM classes and light riding.
6 weeks after break i was back to full riding and kitesurfing but strangely enough it took a while for me to stop being a mincer and get over the fear of doing myself more damage. The brain is a funny one 😯

Missed the whole of the summer,what summer there was anyway with a complete fracture of my right elbow!still a bit crook'ed and told that's as good as it will get,still a bit painfull too,not stopped me riding though!

To be honest having seen you ride, best you give Hit the north a miss 🙂

Mine took ages to heal. Everytime 4 weeks I saw the consultant and he said leave it 4 more weeks. After 4 months it got operated on. But I am apparently in the minority and most heal fully within 12 weeks.

As far as a turbo goes, a friend of mine who races hates the thing but if he can't get out and ride he uses the turbo flat out for 1 hour as this is as long as he can do before the boredom sets in. Interval training works well on a turbo. Shorter invervals at high intensity then ease off for twice as long, repeat, repeat, repeat, sit on sofa!!

Nice one JR, just the sort of simple training schedule I can follow. Off I go!

Beings, I should be OK as long as I avoid 40 kph road descents in the worst weather of the year…

A

Bust mine and was riding to physio in 3 weeks.

OTOH, a mate bust his, and after another 5 months or so, he had to have it pinned 'cos it wasn't knitting (wasn't that bad a break either AFAIA)