Yesterday I suffered the worst crash of my cycling career. Which, in fact, isn’t saying much. It seems how ever hard I try I can’t seem to hurt myself seriously!

Anyway, what happened was that the roads were a little damp, making them a little greasy. I was second wheel going round a roundabout, and Andy in front of me suddenly hit the deck (later road examination suggested some diesel on the surface). This left me nowhere to go but to attempt to go inside him (I had another rider to my left), and the combination of greasy road, very very slick tyre, braking and tightening of corner conspired to dump me on the ground before I knew what was happening. Lesson learned, buy new tyres.

So, just when I thought I was getting over the sprained wrist from 3 months ago…