I was stiff and sore post-race for a couple of days, which I put down to my hard crash in practice; I got through the race on adrenaline but I was soon seizing up a bit afterwards. Ironically, having got away with no lasting damage from that, I then managed to go over on my ankle walking round the office at work, tearing some ankle ligaments in the process!
For the first couple of days I thought I really wasn't sure how much damage I'd done; plenty of rest saw things start to improve and I was able to get gently back on the bike after the first week, but it has taken three weeks, a few trips to the physio, and a lot of ice and stretching to get back to more-or-less normal.
Early season plans put on hold then. I'd planned to make the trip up to Aberystwyth two weeks after Llanishen, but although I'd resumed some light training by then, and my heart wanted to race, my head knew it was still out of the question. Ditto for Hereford the following week, a notoriously bumpy and technical circuit and therefore the last place to test out a dodgy ankle.
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