My 2025 Injuries End of a year is bit of remembering and honestly a …
My 2025 Injuries End of a year is bit of remembering and honestly a bit sentimental 🙂 So I let a few interesting things of the year go through my mind and I try learning from it and plan how to do better in the future. Some may wonder what about my injuries during 2025 race year. Admittedly I sometimes ride and race with injuries. It’s very rare that I get the injuries from a ride or race. Most injuries I had in 2025 and end of 2024 have not been caused by cycling. They are related to health issues I have since early 2022. I have those under control with help of good doctors who do OK my cycling. My strategy is to ignore my injuries as much as possible and just keep going. It’s not always smart but something I learned during my military service. It’s not that I do not feel pain at all. Like everyone else I do feel pain even I may have a bit higher pain tolerance level than usual. I just had to learn how to manage cutting pain out of my mind to survive. I still feel the pain and try to be responsible enough to avoid making the injury even worse. That BTW is the danger a person like I has. I can keep going like I did in Florida500 in 2025 after a bad crash. Issue is that I must judge how far I can go with the injury and when to stop. That by itself can easy cause more severe damage. For those who think that’s cool … I disagree. Therefore, please do not ignore pain or injuries. Health is something we may not get back easily if we keep ignoring injuries. If some top racers praise how cool it is to not feel pain … Its not cool at all. Make sure you can race in the healthiest possible condition. We as true amateurs do not get a single cent for our race finish or race result while we better stay in good health for our daily job’s and for supporting our families. I understand some racers who get sponsorship pay try to show off cool. But even for them it will backfire sometime when they get older. Having that put down and explained … Why do I keep going with injuries? I normally do not push behind a level that causes any increase of my injuries. It’s a judgement I learned over the years even before I start cycling. And I learned when it’s a must stop. I re-adjust my activities in a way to put the least pressure on the spot injured as possible. It seems to work very well and as it was visible in RAP this year it sometimes means I must stop and pull out. In no way would I risk my future for any amateur race result since I do not gain money, nor do I have sponsorship that pays me any money for it anyway. I know this is a bit unusual … I am just a very honest person and rather share experience if good or bad. So please everyone out there try to be responsible to your own health and try to put health and fun over any cool result. Let’s keep in mind … we do not get paid and we may want to be able to do some leisure cycling and have fun even when getting older.
