here's a fitness update for me: rolling into my summer bike and golf season I was firing up my bike commute in May. From my kids school to my office is 7 miles which isnt a lot but 14 mi per day is decent volume and it fits into my schedule. On the third bike commute, about a mile from my car, on my rigid frame gravel bike, I hit a piece of road debris and went over the bars.
Immediately after hitting the ground I heard my front tire hissing from a pinch flat. I didn't lose consciousness but I took a scrape on the side of my helmet, and cracked the foam. I gathered myself up, and collected my sunglasses and my garmin sportwatch and other items I dropped in the crash, and quickly realized my arm was broken.
I wheeled my bike back towards my car. Some handy Boulderites stopped me to ask if I needed help fixing a flat tire but i informed them I had all the tire gear I needed in my backpack but the injury was the real issue.
My HMO told me on the phone that I could get an "urgent" orthopedics appointment in three weeks. So I went to the hospital, where I was diagnosed with a comminuted (multiple) inter-articular (in the joint) displaced (out of position) distal radius fracture. Later according to my surgeon, I learned it was a "type C3" fracture, relatively severe as these things go.
Three days later I had surgery, and a plate installed.
Since then I've been working my hand therapy exercises, and have been back on the stationary bike for the past few weeks As of tomorrow my surgeon has cleared me to ride a real bike. Range of motion is severely limited, but getting better.
Overall 2/10, do not recommend.
This is what a smashed radius looks like from one angle
Plated up