Injured!!!

Crap!!! My bike slipped on a manhole cover towards the end of a long ride. The results: a severely sprained wrist and some nasty rasberries. The accident happened about 10 days ago and the healing process is going well. I can do just about everything except swim and ride outside, so my fitness hasn't dropped but the number of weekly hours have been reduced. I've ramped up my running miles to keep a high fitness level, but there is some worry about overuse injuries. I can't stand the stationary bike, but I'll take what I can get for now. Hopefully I'll be able to get in the water soon.

The silver lining is that my 2009 goals shouldn't be too impacted, given the time of year and cycle of training. I should be able to go hard in January in all sports - including swimming. I can also justify doing some fall road races (Issaquah 10K and potentially the Seattle Half).

Speaking of the Issquah 10K, I've tapered and tested my fitness enough (last week's 6x1200s at 5:39mm felt pretty good) that I'm fairly confident that 37:45 is in the mix. I'm going to pace between 6mm and 6:05mm for the first 5m and try to hold on from there.