Aftermath

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.  So here it goes.




The Bike

"bike"

wheels

CSI

The Body

 

The Back

The Front

I am healing well.  Lots of rest.  

 Training shall be based solely on feel,
while racing shall be guided by sensations and instinct.



Cuylar Conly

 

Operation

Wednesday I got under the knife to have my collarbone repaired. It went smoothly.

I went in first thing in the morning. After hours of line-ups,and patience the knife went down at 3 o'clock. I will admit that I was nervous, as one should be. As it turns out my surgeon is an avid cycling fan, so I knew he would be taking special care.

I came to about an hour later. At this point I had enough drugs in me that i could have been sold on the black market. In other words not allot of pain. Over the next several hours this would all change as I came of the worst bender ever.

Stuart Lynn picked me up from the hospital at 6 and drove me home. Big thanks Stuart. From here on my night got progressively worse. First the nausea, which was unfortunate because i had not eaten in 24 hours and now could barely keep down toast. Then as the drugs faded I knew i was in for a rough night.

I pulled through, and have spent my day watching movies. If I remain still my body produces only a dull roar as it considers the titanium in my shoulder. I have to say I am about 50% less pain than last night. The doctor said the first 2 days would be the worst. I believe him, but also I hope at this rate to be sleeping tonight.

I cannot thank Scott and Sara enough. If not for them I would be surviving off cereal and microwave dinners. I swear to repay as soon as I can.


 Training shall be based solely on feel,
while racing shall be guided by sensations and instinct.



Cuylar Conly

A crushing Loss

I am laying on the couch. Trying to remain as still as possible, and slowly typing with just my left hand. I now have some thinking time. I am pondering what exactly is luck. What makes the difference between lucky and unlucky. There has been an event which inspires this deep think, and questions the definitions of luck fate and destiny.

Yesterday I was struck by a car at high speed. I had completed my morning training and was on my way to work. Ironically I had chosen to avoid the highway and take secondary arteries. I was struck from my right side. By all accounts I should be dead. I was taken by ambulance to Royal Colombian Hospital and admitted into the trauma ward. X-ray's and CT scans reviled only a broken clavicle. A physical examination discovered lacerations to my back.

Miraculously I have no head injury, no spinal injury, no internal trauma and I am alive. I received 27 stitches for the cut to my back. My arm is currently in a sling and I am scheduled to try for surgery tomorrow. The doctors will plate the bone. This should accelerate the healing and help prevent deformity.

On the side, my bike is no longer a bike. AND I was released from the hospital with no clothes. Big thanks to The McKinnons for picking me up, and big thanks to JJ for making me dinner.

I am not sure when I will be back in action. pray for sooner than later. I think provincials is out of the question. perhaps some cyclocross or xc running in the fall.



Training shall be based solely on feel,
while racing shall be guided by sensations and instinct.



Cuylar Conly

For Sale

FOR SALE

Mavic Cosmic Carbone SLR

Wheel-set

carbon wheel-set from Mavic.  The Pinnacle of stiffness and aerodynamics.

-52mm deep dish rims

-integrated carbon spokes

-clincher

-front 725 grams

-rear 870 grams

$1800 OBO

FOR SALE

Time RXS Carbon Triathlon Shoe

Size 43

600 grams for the Pair

$40 (rock bottom)

 Training shall be based solely on feel,
while racing shall be guided by sensations and instinct.



Cuylar Conly

Far Sighted

WOW!  What an intense Hill Climb.  700m at average 16%!  The effort reminded me of running an 800m track race.  Something I have not done in a long time.  I absolutely had tunnel Vision at the end.  perhaps this contributed to my blunder.

I rode through a throng of people lining the road.  passed a Big White tent.  And Crested the top of the hill.  I sat up gasping for Breath.  I thought I had crossed the finish line.  I was so wrong.  There was about 30m of flat to go.  I kicked again, finished of and then wished I could kick myself in the head.

What a bone-head move.   I cannot help but wonder what my time might have been.  This is the kind of misfortune that leaves nothing to blame except for yourself.  Therefore this is the sort of blunder that should never occur.  All that is left to do is slap my face into my palm and move on.


Criterium Racing Tonight.  I will be sure to give plenty of time to drive down after yesterdays traffic fiasco.  Mood, motivated.


Training shall be based solely on feel,
while racing shall be guided by sensations and instinct.



Cuylar Conly

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Delta prologue

Last Night Racing took off in Delta.  The race was an individual 3km prologue.  With the fastest time coming in at 3,46.47.  The winner was a Canuck racing for a pro team in the States.  I completed the course in 4,03 This slotted me into 45th place out of 93.  I have to admit that a 3km Time Trial is rather foreign to me.  I got out there and road as hard as I could, that's all I could do.

I would like to give some big-luv respect to Brad Clifford.  Brad's rear tire blew out approximately 700m into his race.  He rode it out on his flat tire and still posted an impressive time of 3,56.  Good for 21st.  Brad I can't wait to see what you can do with air in your tires. 

Tonight we will race a Criterium in Downtown Ladner.  With a stacked field of both Canadian and American pro Teams it promises to be very exciting.  The mantra of the weekend will be to hold nothing back.



Training shall be based solely on feel,
while racing shall be guided by sensations and instinct.



Cuylar Conly

Lost Week

The Blogging of the past week has been lost.  aka I didn't get around too it.  It was not a particularly exciting week.  I did some Training.  When I wasn't Training I was working.  The crash video from Yale Town seems to have circulated faster than an apocalyptic plague.  This resulted in apx. 15min of fame.

 HOORAY!

Coming up this weekend I will be racing BC Super-week.  This is easily one of the 5 biggest races in the country.  Things kick off this evening at the Tour De Delta.  Today is a 3km dead flat prologue.  Although this is an Individual Time Trial, it is so short that it is a day that will be dominated by sprint specialists.  However prologues are often difficult to predict because we rarely race for such short distances.  On a good Day anyone could ride very fast. 


  Training shall be based solely on feel,
while racing shall be guided by sensations and instinct.



Cuylar Conly
 

The Yale-Town Grand prix

This is how my race went.

Check IT!



 Training shall be based solely on feel,
while racing shall be guided by sensations and instinct.



Cuylar Conly