My War Against Road Rash

3M Tegaderm Hydrocolloid Dressing

These massive 13cm x 15cm Hydrocolloid Dressings should do the trick of getting me healed up and back on the bike in no time. I currently have a load of smaller ones from Boot The Chemist stuck together like a patchwork quilt on my thigh. They are leaking and I am having to put a big pad over the top to catch the Oozing stuff. Less than ideal yeah? So tomorrow I have some of these bad boys coming in the post.
With a bit of luck a quick change of dressing and I will be OK. The dead leg seems to be going and I'm now just suffering from the nasty plasters pulling on the hairs.

Onward!!

I feel like a proper racing cyclist again

As soon as I knew I was racing for sure I set out to shave my legs.

There is nothing worse than hairy legs in cycling shorts. It's been tights weather until now (still is for training)

I'd keep mine trimmed if I was training on the track but when you have hair like I have shaving them is a royal pain in the arse. So out came the clippers then the 30 mins sat in the bath.

Women have it easy I tell yah. And if you want to know why male cyclist shave their legs I suggest you google it. If I had a pound for everytime someone asked me I'd be a rich man.